XMonad spawn programs on startup in specified workspace

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salbeira picture salbeira · Jun 11, 2012 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I am trying to configure my xmonad.hs so that when I start my session I start an array of different programs on different workspaces (like Terminal in 1 ; Firefox in 2 ; Pidgin in 3).

I already looked into the XMonad.Actions.SpawnOn, but as spawnOn returns with an X () and not with a common m () I can not use it in main = do ....

Is there a function that takes an X-monad and returns with IO () or is there another workaround?

Answer

Matvey Aksenov picture Matvey Aksenov · Jun 11, 2012

The common way is to use startupHook which takes X () action and performs it on each startup. E.g.

main = xmonad $ defaultConfig
  { startupHook = do
      spawnOn "workspace1" "program1"
      …
      spawnOn "workspaceN" "programN"
  }

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