XMonad.Hooks.ScreenCorners

Run X () actions by touching the edge of your screen with your mouse.

Usage

This extension adds KDE-like screen corners to XMonad. By moving your cursor into one of your screen corners you can trigger an X () action, for example XMonad.Actions.GridSelect.goToSelected or XMonad.Actions.CycleWS.nextWS etc.

To use it, import it on top of your xmonad.hs:

import XMonad.Hooks.ScreenCorners

Then add your screen corners in our startup hook:

myStartupHook = do
    ...
    addScreenCorner SCUpperRight (goToSelected defaultGSConfig { gs_cellwidth = 200})
    addScreenCorners [ (SCLowerRight, nextWS)
                     , (SCLowerLeft,  prevWS)
                     ]

Then add layout hook: > myLayout = screenCornerLayoutHook $ tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| Full where > tiled = Tall nmaster delta ratio > nmaster = 1 > ratio = 1 / 2 > delta = 3 / 100

And finally wait for screen corner events in your event hook:

myEventHook e = do
    ...
    screenCornerEventHook e

Adding screen corners

data ScreenCorner

Constructors

SCUpperLeft

SCUpperRight

SCLowerLeft

SCLowerRight

Instances

Eq ScreenCorner

Ord ScreenCorner

Show ScreenCorner

addScreenCorner :: ScreenCorner -> X () -> X ()

Add one single X () action to a screen corner

addScreenCorners :: [(ScreenCorner, X ())] -> X ()

Add a list of (ScreenCorner, X ()) tuples

Event hook

screenCornerEventHook :: Event -> X All

Handle screen corner events

Layout hook

screenCornerLayoutHook :: l a -> ModifiedLayout ScreenCornerLayout l a