Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: Add ShowWName a layout modifier to show the workspace...

On Jan 7, 2008 12:28 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote:

On Dec 31, 2007 8:20 AM, Andrea Rossato wrote:

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Another approach, of course, would be to simply call an external

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:52:48PM -0500, David Roundy wrote: program

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that displays the workspace name and then vanishes. It's a little hokey, but I suspect kdialog could do it pretty nicely. Actually, a simple

spawn "kdialog --passivepopup \"" ++ string ++ "\" 1"

ought to do the trick. It's less easily configurable (except by kde users), and requires that kdialog be installed, but it's pretty simple.

I just pushed a version of ShowWName which uses denz to display to workspace name.

dzen is probably the most common application among xmonad users.

Hope it can be useful for someone.

Andrea

I just tried this out and it seems to be broken for me. If I add 'showWName' to my layout and restart, it works fine until I close a window: after closing a window, the next workspace switch displays the workspace name just fine, but all subsequent workspace switches just display a little black box, as if the workspace name were empty.

If you want I can file a bug report on the google code issue tracker too.

-Brent

Oh, and just to add, this is not caused by bad interactions with some other layout modifier, as I suspected at first: I tried it with layoutHook = showWName $ Tall 1 (3/100) (1/2) and got the same behavior. -Brent