diff --git a/hosts/example/home.nix b/hosts/example/home.nix
index da8d856..823b43f 100644
--- a/hosts/example/home.nix
+++ b/hosts/example/home.nix
@@ -14,4 +14,17 @@
     name = "Example User";
     email = "user@example.com";
   };
+
+  # Optional: give workspaces a home monitor (see modules/hyprland-workspaces.nix).
+  # Bind by connector name (`hyprctl monitors`), not panel identity, so any
+  # monitor on that port inherits the rules. `default:true` sets what a screen
+  # shows on connect. Absent monitors fall back, so a single-screen session still
+  # works. Left unset here — uncomment and adjust to your outputs.
+  #
+  # local.hyprland.workspaceRules = [
+  #   "1, monitor:HDMI-A-1, default:true"   # external, workspaces 1-5
+  #   "2, monitor:HDMI-A-1"
+  #   "6, monitor:LVDS-1, default:true"     # laptop, workspaces 6-9
+  #   "7, monitor:LVDS-1"
+  # ];
 }
diff --git a/modules/home.nix b/modules/home.nix
index 40f26b8..f8af0a9 100644
--- a/modules/home.nix
+++ b/modules/home.nix
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ let
   '';
 in
 {
-  imports = [ ./gpg.nix ./media.nix ./texlive.nix ./librewolf.nix ./mc.nix ./mime.nix ];
+  imports = [ ./gpg.nix ./media.nix ./texlive.nix ./librewolf.nix ./mc.nix ./mime.nix ./hyprland-workspaces.nix ];
 
   # Put ~/.local/bin (the XDG user-bin dir) on PATH so hand-dropped scripts run
   # by name without wiring each through nix.
@@ -578,6 +578,10 @@ in
         # master area width. Master layout uses `mfact`, not dwindle's `splitratio`.
         "$mod,		h,	layoutmsg,	mfact -0.05"
         "$mod,		l,	layoutmsg,	mfact +0.05"
+        # Move focus / the current workspace to the other monitor ("o" = other).
+        # With two monitors the relative +1 just toggles between them.
+        "$mod,		o,	focusmonitor,			+1"
+        "$mod SHIFT,	o,	movecurrentworkspacetomonitor,	+1"
       ] ++ (
         # Dynamic definitions for viewing workspaces 1 to 9 and moving windows between them.
         # References physical key codes for robustness with the SHIFT key, e.g. `code:10` instead of `1`.
diff --git a/modules/hyprland-workspaces.nix b/modules/hyprland-workspaces.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d4d8e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/hyprland-workspaces.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Per-monitor "home" for workspaces. Each rule pins a workspace to a monitor
+# connector, so it opens there and Hyprland moves it back when that monitor
+# reappears after an unplug. The connector names are host hardware, so the rule
+# list is an option a consumer sets from its own host config (see the example in
+# `hosts/example/home.nix`), not baked in here; empty by default, so the example
+# host binds nothing.
+#
+# Soft binding: when a bound monitor is absent the workspace just falls back to
+# an active one — every workspace stays reachable, so a laptop-only (no external)
+# session works unchanged. The `default` keyword marks the workspace a monitor
+# shows on connect.
+{ config, lib, pkgs, ... }:
+
+{
+  options.local.hyprland.workspaceRules = lib.mkOption {
+    type = with lib.types; listOf str;
+    default = [ ];
+    example = [
+      "1, monitor:HDMI-A-1, default:true"
+      "6, monitor:LVDS-1, default:true"
+    ];
+    description = ''
+      Hyprland `workspace` rules binding workspaces to monitor connectors, so
+      each workspace has a home screen. Connector names are host-specific — set
+      this from the inventory rather than here.
+    '';
+  };
+
+  config.wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings = {
+    workspace = config.local.hyprland.workspaceRules;
+
+    # With a support monitor whose `default` workspace is high (e.g. a laptop
+    # holding 6-9), a solo session with that monitor as the only screen opens on
+    # that high workspace instead of 1. When rules are in effect, nudge a
+    # single-monitor startup back to workspace 1. No-op with no rules (1 is
+    # already the default). jq is pinned by store path so a consumer needn't
+    # have it installed; hyprctl is bare (a Hyprland session always has it, like
+    # the wallpaper exec-once assumes awww).
+    exec-once = lib.optional (config.local.hyprland.workspaceRules != [ ])
+      "sh -c '[ \"$(hyprctl monitors -j | ${pkgs.jq}/bin/jq length)\" -eq 1 ] && hyprctl dispatch workspace 1'";
+  };
+}