On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Mina Nagy Zaki <mnzaki@gmail.com> wrote:

is there a way to determine the currently active workspace (that which
contains the focused window) externally, i.e., through a command line
utility?

If you have EwmhDesktops active, you can extract it from

xprop -root -notype _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP

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