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