At Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:19:26 +0100, Matthias Hörmann wrote:

You don't have to use the same XPConfig for all of them.

Ahem, yes, that's rather obvious, now that you mention it. Thank you.

You could use one with autocomplete for selecting and one without for creating new workspaces, couldn't you?

Yes, tried it, it works. But it does eat up one extra modifier on my workspace switching key (and I was planning to use it for something else), so I would still be interested in suggestions on how to get the autocomplete delay to allow specifying new names.