Status: New Owner: ---- New issue 531 by erdnussb...@gmail.com: Multiple workspaces with the same name confuses XMonad http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=531 What is the expected output? What do you see instead? I expect that xmonad differs between workspaces even if they have the same name. The following describes the scenarios you run into when naming multiple workspaces identically. ------------------- Scenario 1: ------------------- How to produce: 1. Give some workspaces the same name. 2. Restart and recompile XMonad. What happens: The renamed workspaces are added uselessly to the beginng of the list. (see picture 1.png) ------------------- Scenario 2: ------------------- How to produce: 1. Start from scenario 1. 2. Restart X. What happens: XMonad shows all the workspaces separately but addresses them as one (see picture 2.png). Additional information: If you switch between two workspaces with the same name, xmonad loads the content again (you see it flicker) but the content is the same. ------------------- Scenario 3a: ------------------- How to produce: 1. Start from scenario 2. 2. Change one of the former identical workspace names to something unique. 3. Recompile and restart XMonad. What happens: XMonad displays mutliple times the unique name?! (see picture 3a.png) Additional information: From this point on, recompiling and restarting doesn't fix the corruption of the running XMonad session. ------------------- Scenario 3b: ------------------- How to produce: 1. Start from Scenario 3a 2. Restart X What happens: The multiple workspaces are shown again, still addresses as one, but the uniquely named workspace is displayed and addressed correctly. (see picture 3b.png) ------------------- Scenario 3c: ------------------- How to produce: 1. Start from Scenario 3b. 2. Change all workspace names to something unique again. 3. Recompile and Restart Xmonad. What happens: The doesn't have the intended effect, instead some workspace keys stop working and a random one is shown mutliple times. (see picture 3c.png) Restarting X fixes this issue. 4. Start with Scenario 1 again, it's fun (: ------------------- What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? Linux ******* 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2 x86_64 GNU/Linux (wheezy) xmonad 0.10 ------------------- Are you using an xmonad.hs? Please attach it and the output of "xmonad --recompile". Yes I'm using it, there are no compilation errors. ------------------- Please provide any additional information below. Dzen2 and Xmobar showed the same effects. Attachments: 1.png 116 KB 2.png 122 KB 3a.png 137 KB 3b.png 115 KB 3c.png 116 KB xmonad.hs 10.8 KB