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Lara Michaels

19 Jul 2010 19 Jul '10

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Hi Justin and Max, Thank you for your terrific help. I just played around for a bit with the Gnome Window selector and it is by far the best option until now for my purposes. I will try to use xdotool to avoid having to click on the panel to show/hide the list. The only thing I would like to change about this is that I would like it to always show the complete, sorted list of workspaces -- "ws 1", "ws2" ,etc -- independently if there is something on them and/or if they are currently visible. The spatial layout of the ordered list (with no skipping of empty workspaces) would be perfect. But I guess this is asking too much. :) As usual all ideas are more than welcome. This is a terrific list. :) best ~l

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Justin Bogner

20 Jul 20 Jul

12:27 a.m.

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Lara Michaels writes:

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Thank you for your terrific help. I just played around for a bit with the Gnome Window selector and it is by far the best option until now for my purposes. I will try to use xdotool to avoid having to click on the panel to show/hide the list.

I ran into this "switcher applet" yesterday. It lacks polish but it's an interesting idea. There's a screenshot at [1] and a "version 0.2" at [2]. [1]: http://opensores.za.net/2010/01/09/desktop-switcher-for-gnome/ [2]: http://opensores.za.net/2010/01/19/switcher-02/

Lara Michaels

8:51 a.m.

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Hi Justin, Many thanks, this is awesome! Just like what I had in mind. : ) Currently it doesn't play well with a vertical panel, but I am sure that is just a small tweak. again many thanks, this was super-helpful : ) ~l --- On Tue, 7/20/10, Justin Bogner wrote:

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Thank you for your terrific help. I just played around for a bit with the Gnome Window selector and it is by far the best

From: Justin Bogner Subject: [xmonad] Re: knowing what is on each workspace and/or knowing which workspace I am looking at To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 4:27 AM Lara Michaels writes: option until now

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for my purposes. I will try to use xdotool to avoid having to click on the panel to show/hide the list.

I ran into this "switcher applet" yesterday. It lacks polish but it's an interesting idea. There's a screenshot at [1] and a "version 0.2" at [2].

[1]: http://opensores.za.net/2010/01/09/desktop-switcher-for-gnome/ [2]: http://opensores.za.net/2010/01/19/switcher-02/

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Lara Michaels

3:08 p.m.

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In case others (now or in the future) are interested in getting this working, I just want to note that unfortunately this very cool switcher that Justin pointed out is not usable with multiple monitors. All the apps currently visible (on both workspaces) get grouped together as being in either workspace A or B, depending on which currently has focus. Until now the best option for use with multiple monitors seems to be Gnome's Window Selector; in spite of the small shortcomings mentioned earlier it is very useful and seems to work reliably. Best ~lara --- On Tue, 7/20/10, Lara Michaels wrote:

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From: Lara Michaels Subject: Re: [xmonad] Re: knowing what is on each workspace and/or knowing which workspace I am looking at To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 12:51 PM Hi Justin,

Many thanks, this is awesome! Just like what I had in mind. : ) Currently it doesn't play well with a vertical panel, but I am sure that is just a small tweak.

again many thanks, this was super-helpful : )

~l

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Thank you for your terrific help. I just played around for a bit with the Gnome Window selector and it is by far the best

From: Justin Bogner Subject: [xmonad] Re: knowing what is on each workspace and/or knowing which workspace I am looking at To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 4:27 AM Lara Michaels writes: option until now

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for my purposes. I will try to use xdotool to avoid having to click on the panel to show/hide the list.

I ran into this "switcher applet" yesterday. It lacks polish but it's an interesting idea. There's a screenshot at [1] and a "version 0.2" at [2].

[1]: http://opensores.za.net/2010/01/09/desktop-switcher-for-gnome/ [2]: http://opensores.za.net/2010/01/19/switcher-02/

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Justin Bogner

8:09 p.m.

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Lara Michaels writes:

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In case others (now or in the future) are interested in getting this working, I just want to note that unfortunately this very cool switcher that Justin pointed out is not usable with multiple monitors. All the apps currently visible (on both workspaces) get grouped together as being in either workspace A or B, depending on which currently has focus.

This is due to how EwmhDesktops works. The gnome window selector behaves the same way, in fact. I wrote a patch [1] that fixes this issue last year, but apparently nobody was interested enough to apply it. An updated patch for the current head is attached. [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.xmonad/8542

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