Re: [xmonad] xmonad user survey!

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 02:26:08PM -0800, David Benbennick wrote:

On 12/22/07, Don Stewart wrote:

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* What things are missing? * What things do you miss from ion/wmii/dwm/compiz

I used to use WindowMaker. When I switch workspaces, WindowMaker shows the new workspace name for a second in the middle of the screen, then fades it out.

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). -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University