Re: [xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen?

8 May 2011

      Hi Don and everyone,

From the screenshot this looks like exactly what I am looking for! Many thanks for sending me the link. 

I am afraid that I might need some additional hand-holding, though. :( I successfully installed both the Ubuntu libxosd-dev package as well as your xosd Haskell library. Can you tell me what I should do next?
...
Add a hook to your config file to bind a key sequence to
the workspace display.
It is not clear to me what this means. 

Sorry and thank you for any further help
lara

--- On Sun, 5/8/11, Don Stewart  wrote:
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From: Don Stewart 
Subject: Re: [xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen?
To: "Lara Michaels" 
Cc: xmonad@haskell.org
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011, 6:47 PM
Uses this library:
    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xosd
Add a hook to your config file to bind a key sequence to
the workspace display.
...
I wrote a little tool to do this, based on xosd a few
years ago,
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-November/006702.html
you might adapt that.
-- Don
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Lara Michaels

wrote:
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Hi everyone,
I just moved to a three-screen setup at work and
am suffering from a curious problem: I cannot remember which
workspace is being displayed on each of the screens! That
makes it pretty time-consuming to switch one screen from its
current workspace to a different one.
With the earlier help of list members, I am using
showWMName:
import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName
myLayout = layoutHook gnomeConfig -- part of
displaying current workspace name using
Xmonad.Layout.ShowWName
main = xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig {
       manageHook = manageHook gnomeConfig
<+> composeAll myManageHook,
       workspaces = myWorkspaces,
       modMask = mod4Mask, -- makes all xmonad
shortcuts be "Windows key + X" (thus not interfering with
any app's)
       borderWidth        = 3,
       normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc",
       focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00",
       layoutHook = showWName myLayout
       }
       `additionalKeysP` myKeys
This gets me a small useful indication of which
workspace I am moving to *when I switch from one to the
other*.
Similarly, is it possible to permanently display
in a corner (e.g., in the bottom-left corner) of each screen
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...
With multihead setups (where I think xmonad really
shines), it is quite confusing not know which workspace you
are looking at on each screen... I only wish I understood
Haskell so that I could implement something like this. If
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Don Stewart 
wrote:
the number of the workspace that is being displayed on that
screen? Or perhaps have the option of showing this same
information in the center of each screen by pressing a hot
key?
this is a small hack that can be accomplished with three
lines of code, please tell me how to do it! :)
...
...
all the best and my thanks for any help
~lara
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