Re: [xmonad] make DynamicLog prefix workspace names with number

30 Jan 2010

      Hi Ivan, Omari,

Following up on this question, is it possible to have the log automatically set the name of the workspace to the programs running in it? 

Currently I use the dynamic log with xmonad-log-applet (http://uhsure.com/xmonad-log-applet.html), but it would be so much more useful if rather than *me* making sure I place each window in the right workspace the system would name the workspaces after the windows each of them contains...

I don't understand Haskell, but I believe this is the part of my xmonad.hs that sets the names of the workspaces as they are shown on the taskbar:

        logHook    = dynamicLogWithPP $ defaultPP {
                   ppOutput   = \ str -> do
                     let str'  = "" ++ str ++
                                 "</span>"
                         str'' = sanitize str'
                     msg <- newSignal "/org/xmonad/Log" "org.xmonad.Log"
                                "Update"
                     addArgs msg [String str'']
                     -- If the send fails, ignore it.
                     send dbus msg 0 `catchDyn`
                       (\ (DBus.Error _name _msg) ->
                         return 0)
                     return ()
                 , ppTitle    = pangoColor "#003366" . shorten 50
                 , ppCurrent  = pangoColor "#006666" . wrap "[" "]"
                 , ppVisible  = pangoColor "#663366" . wrap "(" ")"
                 , ppHidden   = wrap " " " "
                 , ppUrgent   = pangoColor "red"
                 }

Any ideas would be most welcome : )

best,

lara

--- On Sat, 1/30/10, Ivan Miljenovic  wrote:
...
From: Ivan Miljenovic 
Subject: Re: [xmonad] make DynamicLog prefix workspace names with number
To: xmonad@haskell.org
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2:23 AM
2010/1/30 Omari Norman :
...
Is there any easy way to get DynamicLog to prefix the
names of
workspaces with numbers? For instance, I have
workspaces named "web",
"mail" and "local"; I want these to show up in my
xmobar as "1:web",
"2:mail", and "3:remote".
I do this, but I'm not at my own machine at the
moment.  I'll email
that part of my config later on when I _am_ at my own
computer.
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Re: [xmonad] make DynamicLog prefix workspace names with number

Lara Michaels