On Dec 26, 2007 7:31 AM, Andrea Rossato
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 08:28:18AM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:26:08PM -0800, David Benbennick wrote:
In XMonad, I often get lost, and don't know what workspace I'm in (since I use Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right to switch more than Alt-1/2/3). I'd love to have XMonad briefly flash the workspace name when switching workspaces.
This would make a nice little contrib extension, and should actually be relatively easy as a layout modifier, except that it'd necessarily involve creating a little window (which is always tedious).
I was playing with this idea, but it doesn't seem so easy to me actually... doLayout is called not just when you move to a new workspace, but every time XMonad.Operations.windows is called... which probably makes this approach quite troublesome and probably impossible...
I think that should be pretty easy to handle. You just need a Bool data member in your layout modifier. You only print the message if the Bool is True, and when you print the message you set the Bool to False. Then you reset it to true when you get a Hide message. David (who doesn't have time to play with your code)