On 8 October 2012 19:17, Hans Chen
Hi,
I'm a new xmonad user, and despite knowing next to no Haskell, I've made xmonad work pretty much the way I want it. Fantastic!
Now there's only one major thing I miss. Let's get to the point before boring you with rationales; I want DynamicLog to prefix my workspace names with a number, e.g. "web", "chat", "work" becomes "1:web", "2:chat", "3:work". I found a previous discussion[1] in the mailing list and a zsh script[2], but I would like to do it directly in xmonad.hs, presumable where I define my PP. (I use dzen2 to display the workspace names, if it makes any difference).
My PP is pretty standard, you can find it here: http://paste.kde.org/564734/
So why do I want this? I use DynamicWorkspaces to create and delete workspaces on the fly, but still prefer to use Mod(+shift)+<number> to switch and move windows between workspaces. This is a bit hard, however, without a number next to the workspace name. I know that you can bind a key to selectWorkspace, but I find it faster to switch using the traditional method when you don't have many workspaces.
I'm using xmonad 0.10 and xmonad-contrib 0.10, but I guess I wouldn't mind trying out darcs if it's needed.
Help would be very much appreciated!
With best regards, Hans
---- [1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2010-January/009683.html [2] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2010-February/009690.html
I'm not directly answering your question, but I'll try to help you solve your problem. First, I'd question myself why I would want to create workspaces on the fiy :P, and then "keep them" enough time to make your issue relevant. I always imagined dynamicworkspaces as a complement to create "short-lived" workspaces. Also, if you are creating the same (or similar) workspaces every time... maybe there isn't really a good reason to create them on the fly. In my case I keep 7 "fixed" WS: 1:terms, 2:web, 3:coding, 4:files, 5:media, 6:various, 7:im. They are called that way, so it's easy to use the number to jump between them and then I create/rename/remove "dynamic" ones in case are needed. Another module that helps (a lot) in jumping/moving between workspaces are X.A.CycleRecentWS and X.A.CycleWS, I think you should take a look :) Regards! -- Pablo Olmos de Aguilera Corradini - @PaBLoX http://www.glatelier.org/ http://about.me/pablox/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/pablooda/ Linux User: #456971 - http://counter.li.org/