Cycling through workspaces in multi monitor setup in XMonad

Question

I'm currently using alt + ctrl + left and alt + ctrl + right to cycle between workspaces:

...

    , ((altModMask .|. controlMask, xK_Left),
      prevWS)
    , ((altModMask .|. controlMask, xK_Right),
      nextWS)

This works fine for single monitor setup. However it is a bit confusing when using a dual monitor setup. This is because the workspace to be shown will change screen if currently visible on another screen. For instance if I have ws 1 on screen 0 and ws 2 on screen 1 and have the focus on screen 0:

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When I now do a nextWS, ws 2, that was currently on screen 1 will be drawn to screen 0, while screen 1 will show ws 1.

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What I would like is a behaviour where prexWS and nextWS will jump over the workspace that is currently shown on the other monitor and only select a workspace that is currently not shown.

Are there such commands already or is there some xmonad.hs example that implements this?

Answer 1

Use XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaceOrder from the xmonad-contrib:

import qualified XMonad.Actions.DynamicWorkspaceOrder as DO

...

    , ((altModMask .|. controlMask, xK_Left),
      DO.moveTo Prev HiddenNonEmptyWS)
    , ((altModMask .|. controlMask, xK_Right),
      DO.moveTo Next HiddenNonEmptyWS)