Hi Ivan, Omari, Following up on this question, is it possible to have the log automatically set the name of the workspace to the programs running in it? Currently I use the dynamic log with xmonad-log-applet (http://uhsure.com/xmonad-log-applet.html), but it would be so much more useful if rather than *me* making sure I place each window in the right workspace the system would name the workspaces after the windows each of them contains... I don't understand Haskell, but I believe this is the part of my xmonad.hs that sets the names of the workspaces as they are shown on the taskbar: logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ defaultPP { ppOutput = \ str -> do let str' = "" ++ str ++ "</span>" str'' = sanitize str' msg <- newSignal "/org/xmonad/Log" "org.xmonad.Log" "Update" addArgs msg [String str''] -- If the send fails, ignore it. send dbus msg 0 `catchDyn` (\ (DBus.Error _name _msg) -> return 0) return () , ppTitle = pangoColor "#003366" . shorten 50 , ppCurrent = pangoColor "#006666" . wrap "[" "]" , ppVisible = pangoColor "#663366" . wrap "(" ")" , ppHidden = wrap " " " " , ppUrgent = pangoColor "red" } Any ideas would be most welcome : ) best, lara --- On Sat, 1/30/10, Ivan Miljenovic wrote:

From: Ivan Miljenovic Subject: Re: [xmonad] make DynamicLog prefix workspace names with number To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010, 2:23 AM 2010/1/30 Omari Norman :

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Is there any easy way to get DynamicLog to prefix the names of workspaces with numbers? For instance, I have workspaces named "web", "mail" and "local"; I want these to show up in my xmobar as "1:web", "2:mail", and "3:remote".

I do this, but I'm not at my own machine at the moment.  I'll email that part of my config later on when I _am_ at my own computer.

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Hi Omari, Many thanks, I will try it out! Ivan, that is a good question. One could concatenate the progam names or something... : ) cheers l --- On Mon, 2/1/10, Omari Norman wrote:

From: Omari Norman Subject: Re: [xmonad] make DynamicLog prefix workspace names with number To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 6:41 PM Hi Lara,

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Following up on this question, is it possible to have the log automatically set the name of the workspace to the programs running in it?

Can't help you there :( I'm rudimentary with xmonad and haskell...

2010/1/30 Omari Norman :

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Is there any easy way to get DynamicLog to prefix the names of workspaces with numbers?

I cobbled together something rudimentary in zsh. Surely this could be done in Haskell using the ppOutput function in dynamicLog, and maybe when I have a few minutes to mess around with Haskell I'll do that. This is very primitive--workspace names can't have spaces--but it does (currently) work, in case someone else finds it handy.

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