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Programmer Dvorak and switching workspaces in XMonad

Mon, Oct 8, 2012

Recently I migarted from awesome to xmonad. I’m Programmer Dvorak freak, so I stuck with controlling current workspace from numbers row.

First hack was to use functional keys [F1..F12] like so:

    -- mod-[F1..F12]       Switch to workspace N
    -- mod-shift-[F1..F12] Move client to workspace N
    --
    [((m .|. modm, k), windows $ f i)
        | (i, k) <- zip (XMonad.workspaces conf) [xK_F1 .. xK_F12]
        , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

But after some research I found that I can detect key symbol using xev command. Here is my latest solution:

    -- Programmer Dvorak
    -- mod-[1..9]       Switch to workspace N
    -- mod-shift-[1..9] Move client to workspace N
    --
    [((m .|. modm, k), windows $ f i)
        | (i, k) <- zip (XMonad.workspaces conf) [xK_ampersand, xK_bracketleft, xK_braceleft, xK_braceright, xK_parenleft
                                                 ,xK_equal, xK_asterisk, xK_parenright, xK_plus, xK_bracketright, xK_exclam]
        , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

Hooray! It works!

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