XMonad.Actions.WindowNavigation

xmonad-contrib-0.12: Third party extensions for xmonad

Copyright | (c) 2007 David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net>, Devin Mullins <me@twifkak.com>
Maintainer | Devin Mullins <me@twifkak.com>
Safe Haskell | None
Language | Haskell98

XMonad.Actions.WindowNavigation

Contents

- Usage

Description

License : BSD3-style (see LICENSE) Stability : unstable Portability : unportable

This is a rewrite of XMonad.Layout.WindowNavigation. WindowNavigation lets you assign keys to move up/down/left/right, based on actual cartesian window coordinates, rather than just going j/k on the stack.

This module is experimental. You'll have better luck with the original.

This module differs from the other in a few ways:

1. You can go up/down/left/right across multiple screens.
2. It doesn't provide little border colors for your neighboring windows.
3. It doesn't provide the 'Move' action, which seems to be related to the XMonad.Layout.Combo extension.
4. It tries to be slightly smarter about tracking your current position.
5. Configuration is different.

Synopsis

- withWindowNavigation :: (KeySym, KeySym, KeySym, KeySym) -> XConfig l -> IO (XConfig l)
- withWindowNavigationKeys :: [((KeyMask, KeySym), WNAction)] -> XConfig l -> IO (XConfig l)
- data WNAction
  - = WNGo Direction2D
  - | WNSwap Direction2D
- go :: IORef WNState -> Direction2D -> X ()
- swap :: IORef WNState -> Direction2D -> X ()
- data Direction2D
  - = U
  - | D
  - | R
  - | L
- type WNState = Map WorkspaceId Point

# Usage

To use it, you're going to apply the `withWindowNavigation` function. `withWindowNavigation` performs some IO operations, so the syntax you'll use is the same as the spawnPipe example in XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog. In particular:

    main = do
        config <- withWindowNavigation (xK_w, xK_a, xK_s, xK_d)
                $ def { ... }
        xmonad config

Here, we pass in the keys for navigation in counter-clockwise order from up. It creates keybindings for `modMask` to move to window, and `modMask .|. shiftMask` to swap windows.

If you want more flexibility over your keybindings, you can use `withWindowNavigationKeys`, which takes a list of `keys`-esque entries rather than a tuple of the four directional keys. See the source code of `withWindowNavigation` for an example.

withWindowNavigation :: (KeySym, KeySym, KeySym, KeySym) -> XConfig l -> IO (XConfig l)

withWindowNavigationKeys :: [((KeyMask, KeySym), WNAction)] -> XConfig l -> IO (XConfig l)

data WNAction

Constructors

WNGo Direction2D |
WNSwap Direction2D |

go :: IORef WNState -> Direction2D -> X ()

swap :: IORef WNState -> Direction2D -> X ()

data Direction2D

Two-dimensional directions:

Constructors

U | Up
D | Down
R | Right
L | Left

Instances

Bounded Direction2D |
Enum Direction2D |
Eq Direction2D |
Ord Direction2D |
Read Direction2D |
Show Direction2D |

type WNState = Map WorkspaceId Point