On Dec 31, 2007 8:20 AM, Andrea Rossato <mailing_list@istitutocolli.org> wrote:

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

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