* On Wednesday, November 17 2010, Oleksandr Manzyuk wrote:

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the link to your configuration. Indeed, it basically provides the behavior I wanted to have, except that I also wanted to make the status bar on an unfocused screen show something useful (like the title of the last focused window and the layout on that screen). On the other hand, your code allows to use different pretty-printers for the focused and unfocused screens.

Hm... It looks like the changes I am suggesting are not general enough. Should I make a patch or should we think about factoring the existing functionality even further? In the former case, should I change the (admittedly provisional) names dynamicLogWithPP', dynamicLogString', and pprWindowSet' to longer but more descriptive dynamicLogWithPPonScreen, dynamicLogStringOnScreen, and ppWindowSetOnScreen?

Best, Sasha

What we're running into is probably the reason such functionality doesn't exist in contrib already: there are far too many different ways you can display things with multiple status bars, and it's tricky to allow a good portion of them. Something else to consider is having xmobar read an x property rather than using a pipe. This config has an example: http://anna.fi.muni.cz/~xjanous3/darcs/xmonad-conf/ Descriptive names are better. Using one data with named fields should probably be used once there are enough optional arguments. Adam