Provides bindings to rename workspaces, show these names in a status bar and swap workspaces along with their names. These names survive restart. Together with XMonad.Layout.WorkspaceDir this provides for a fully dynamic topic space workflow.

You can use this module with the following in your xmonad.hs file:

import XMonad.Actions.WorkspaceNames

Then add keybindings like the following:

  , ((modm .|. shiftMask, xK_r      ), renameWorkspace def)

and apply workspaceNamesPP to your pretty-printer:

myPP = workspaceNamesPP xmobarPP

Check XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar for more information on how to incorprate this into your status bar.

To expose workspace names to pagers and other EWMH clients, integrate this with XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops:

main = xmonad $ … . workspaceNamesEwmh . ewmh . … $ def{…}

We also provide a modification of XMonad.Actions.SwapWorkspaces's functionality, which may be used this way:

  , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Left  ), swapTo Prev)
  , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Right ), swapTo Next)

[((modm .|. controlMask, k), swapWithCurrent i)
    | (i, k) <- zip workspaces [xK_1 ..]]

For detailed instructions on editing your key bindings, see the tutorial.