When it comes to the workspace part, what about xmobar/dzen in a logHook? The default sorting method there may not be the best for multiple screens, therefore you might like to try to use one of the xinerama sorting modes (getSortByXineramaRule & getSortByXineramaPhysicalRule from X.U.WorkspaceCompare). They place the windows for each of your screens first, so the first screen in the list is your leftmost monitor. It all depends on how you use your workspaces if this is appropriate for you. On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 21:51, Etienne Millon wrote:

Hello,

To show the name of the current workspace when you change it, you can use XMonad.Layout.ShowWName.

I don't know a way to query where a window is, but XMonad.Actions.WindowGo has a 'raise' function that will make visible a window that meets a Query. I believe this is what you are looking for.

Hope that helps !

-- Etienne Millon

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Hi Henrique, A graphical pager would also be a great way to solve both my problems. I am on Ubuntu and tried enabling the one that comes with the Gnome panel ("Workspace switcher"), but though everything works I can only see the shaded contours of the windows on the different workspaces... Is there a way to have it show either an icon or a miniaturized "preview" of what each window is displaying? Unfortunately "pager" is one of the most difficult words to google for, since it assumes that I mean "page". : ) Many thanks! lara --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: From: Henrique G. Abreu Subject: Re: [xmonad] knowing what is on each workspace and/or knowing which workspace I am looking at To: "Lara Michaels" Cc: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10:47 PM It seems like you need a "bar" that shows you these info.Something like xmobar, dzen, plus a logHook or any graphical pager with EwmhDesktops.Some pagers shows windows icons at the workspaces, others a "preview" of the layout, etc. I've heard there's some problem though in setting them to understand xmonad multiple monitors. Henrique G. Abreu On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 16:34, Lara Michaels wrote: Dear all, I never managed to have a way of knowing either 1- on which workspace a particular program is open or 2- which workspace is being displayed on each of my monitors (eg, "on this monitor you are looking at workspace 1") Is there a way to get either of these behaviors? Without this information, I do spend some serious time zapping across workspaces to find the window I need. I thought that an easy way to address (2) would be to use an OSD (like libnotify) to pop up a notification providing the workspace name/number when the user switches workspaces. Is there a "hook" in xmonad to which I could link a command "run notification saying this is workspace X"? Many thanks for any help ~lara _______________________________________________ xmonad mailing list xmonad@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/xmonad

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Unfortunately "pager" is one of the most difficult words to google for, since it assumes that I mean "page". : )

"+pager" works for me. You want hard, try a term with a symbol in it that hasn't been special-cased (see complaints shortly after Microsoft announced C# for an example) :) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxDVZ8ACgkQIn7hlCsL25VNKwCgiO39pfwwVNILMjIeck88fbsr 7kwAnRC8FozCn48C0r7ZlV1KausQubtU =mUpT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----