XMonad.Actions.PhysicalScreens

Manipulate screens ordered by physical location instead of ID

Usage

This module allows you name Xinerama screens from XMonad using their physical location relative to each other (as reported by Xinerama), rather than their ScreenID s, which are arbitrarily determined by your X server and graphics hardware.

Screens are ordered by the upper-left-most corner, from top-to-bottom and then left-to-right.

Example usage in your ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs file:

 import XMonad.Actions.PhysicalSCreens

 , ((modMask, xK_a), onPrevNeighbour W.view)
 , ((modMask, xK_o), onNextNeighbour W.view)
 , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_a), onPrevNeighbour W.shift)
 , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_o), onNextNeighbour W.shift)

 --
 -- mod-{w,e,r}, Switch to physical/Xinerama screens 1, 2, or 3
 -- mod-shift-{w,e,r}, Move client to screen 1, 2, or 3
 --
 [((modm .|. mask, key), f sc)
     | (key, sc) <- zip [xK_w, xK_e, xK_r] [0..]
     , (f, mask) <- [(viewScreen, 0), (sendToScreen, shiftMask)]]

For detailed instructions on editing your key bindings, see XMonad.Doc.Extending.

newtype PhysicalScreen

The type of the index of a screen by location

Constructors

P Int

Instances

Enum PhysicalScreen

Eq PhysicalScreen

Integral PhysicalScreen

Num PhysicalScreen

Ord PhysicalScreen

Read PhysicalScreen

Real PhysicalScreen

Show PhysicalScreen

getScreen :: PhysicalScreen -> X (Maybe ScreenId)

Translate a physical screen index to a ScreenId

viewScreen :: PhysicalScreen -> X ()

Switch to a given physical screen

sendToScreen :: PhysicalScreen -> X ()

Send the active window to a given physical screen

onNextNeighbour :: (WorkspaceId -> WindowSet -> WindowSet) -> X ()

Apply operation on a WindowSet with the WorkspaceId of the next screen in the physical order as parameter.

onPrevNeighbour :: (WorkspaceId -> WindowSet -> WindowSet) -> X ()

Apply operation on a WindowSet with the WorkspaceId of the previous screen in the physical order as parameter.