path: root/XMonad/Actions/RotView.hs

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- |
-- Module      :  XMonad.Actions.RotView
-- Copyright   :  (c) David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net>
-- License     :  BSD3-style (see LICENSE)
--
-- Maintainer  :  David Roundy <droundy@darcs.net>
-- Stability   :  unstable
-- Portability :  unportable
--
-- Provides bindings to cycle through non-empty workspaces.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

module XMonad.Actions.RotView (
                              -- * Usage
                              -- $usage
                              rotView
                             ) where

import Control.Monad.State ( gets )
import Data.List ( sortBy, find )
import Data.Maybe ( isJust )
import Data.Ord ( comparing )

import XMonad
import XMonad.StackSet hiding (filter)
import XMonad.Operations

-- $usage
-- You can use this module with the following in your Config.hs file:
--
-- > import XMonad.Actions.RotView
--
-- >   , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Right), rotView True)
-- >   , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Left), rotView False)

-- %import XMonad.Actions.RotView
-- %keybind , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Right), rotView True)
-- %keybind , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Left), rotView False)

rotView :: Bool -> X ()
rotView forward = do
    ws <- gets windowset
    let currentTag = tag . workspace . current $ ws
        sortWs     = sortBy (comparing tag)
        isNotEmpty = isJust . stack
        sorted     = sortWs (hidden ws)
        pivoted    = let (a,b) = span ((< currentTag) . tag) sorted in b ++ a
        pivoted'   | forward   = pivoted
                   | otherwise = reverse pivoted
        nextws     = find isNotEmpty pivoted'
    whenJust nextws (windows . view . tag)