Uses this library: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xosd Add a hook to your config file to bind a key sequence to the workspace display. On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Don Stewart wrote:

I wrote a little tool to do this, based on xosd a few years ago,

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-November/006702.html

you might adapt that.

-- Don

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Lara Michaels wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I just moved to a three-screen setup at work and am suffering from a curious problem: I cannot remember which workspace is being displayed on each of the screens! That makes it pretty time-consuming to switch one screen from its current workspace to a different one.

With the earlier help of list members, I am using showWMName:

import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName

myLayout = layoutHook gnomeConfig -- part of displaying current workspace name using Xmonad.Layout.ShowWName

main = xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig {        manageHook = manageHook gnomeConfig <+> composeAll myManageHook,        workspaces = myWorkspaces,        modMask = mod4Mask, -- makes all xmonad shortcuts be "Windows key + X" (thus not interfering with any app's)        borderWidth        = 3,        normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc",        focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00",        layoutHook = showWName myLayout        }        `additionalKeysP` myKeys

This gets me a small useful indication of which workspace I am moving to *when I switch from one to the other*.

Similarly, is it possible to permanently display in a corner (e.g., in the bottom-left corner) of each screen the number of the workspace that is being displayed on that screen? Or perhaps have the option of showing this same information in the center of each screen by pressing a hot key?

With multihead setups (where I think xmonad really shines), it is quite confusing not know which workspace you are looking at on each screen... I only wish I understood Haskell so that I could implement something like this. If this is a small hack that can be accomplished with three lines of code, please tell me how to do it! :)

all the best and my thanks for any help ~lara

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Googling around, there are some examples. E.g.: http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/attachmentText?id=413&aid=-5265428714529951209&name=xmonad.hs&token=d4312fbc3743366f82e4e1cea9c9e540 defines some additional key bindings: myKeys (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) osd = M.fromList $ [ ((modMask, xK_p), Shell.shellPrompt myXPConfig) , ((0, 0x1008ff11), volumeDown 1 >> showVolume osd) , ((0, 0x1008ff13), volumeUp 1 >> showVolume osd) , ((0, 0x1008ff12), toggleMute >> showVolume osd) , ((0, xK_Pause), spawn "lock_display") ] in particular, it binds those first few key bindings to actions that call XOSD: getOffset :: X Int getOffset = withWindowSet $ \W.StackSet {current=W.Screen {screenDetail=SD {screenRect=Rectangle {rect_x=x}}}} -> return $ fromIntegral x displayOsd osd msg = do xpos <- getOffset io $ set osd [HOffset xpos] io $ Graphics.XOSD.display osd 0 msg showVolume :: XOSD -> X () showVolume osd = do volume <- io $ getCurrentVolume muted <- io $ getMutedState displayOsd osd $ Percent $ if muted then 0 else volume I also had the following code lying around, that uses the `xosd` binary that my library installs: -- Programmatically, however, we probably should spawn the xosd binary. -- Todo: try adding the workspace number too? name :: X () name = do XState { windowset = ws } <- get let n = screen (current ws) -- show screen indicies. liftIO $ XOSD.runXOSD [ XOSD.Timeout 3 , XOSD.VAlign XOSD.VAlignMiddle , XOSD.HAlign XOSD.HAlignCenter , XOSD.Font "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" , XOSD.Color "LimeGreen" , XOSD.Display (XOSD.String (show n))] (const $ return ()) and at some point in the past I had ^V bound to this `name` function: , ((modMask conf , xK_v), name) I think one of these two options should be ok. I'd love to see someone wrap this all up even more easily! -- Don On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Lara Michaels wrote:

Hi Don and everyone,

From the screenshot this looks like exactly what I am looking for! Many thanks for sending me the link.

I am afraid that I might need some additional hand-holding, though. :( I successfully installed both the Ubuntu libxosd-dev package as well as your xosd Haskell library. Can you tell me what I should do next?

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Add a hook to your config file to bind a key sequence to the workspace display.

It is not clear to me what this means.

Sorry and thank you for any further help lara

--- On Sun, 5/8/11, Don Stewart wrote:

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From: Don Stewart Subject: Re: [xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen? To: "Lara Michaels" Cc: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011, 6:47 PM Uses this library:

    http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xosd

Add a hook to your config file to bind a key sequence to the workspace display.

...

I wrote a little tool to do this, based on xosd a few years ago,

http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2008-November/006702.html

you might adapt that.

-- Don

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Lara Michaels wrote:

...

Hi everyone,

I just moved to a three-screen setup at work and am suffering from a curious problem: I cannot remember which workspace is being displayed on each of the screens! That makes it pretty time-consuming to switch one screen from its current workspace to a different one.

With the earlier help of list members, I am using showWMName:

import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName

myLayout = layoutHook gnomeConfig -- part of displaying current workspace name using Xmonad.Layout.ShowWName

main = xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig {        manageHook = manageHook gnomeConfig <+> composeAll myManageHook,        workspaces = myWorkspaces,        modMask = mod4Mask, -- makes all xmonad shortcuts be "Windows key + X" (thus not interfering with any app's)        borderWidth        = 3,        normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc",        focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00",        layoutHook = showWName myLayout        }        `additionalKeysP` myKeys

This gets me a small useful indication of which workspace I am moving to *when I switch from one to the other*.

Similarly, is it possible to permanently display in a corner (e.g., in the bottom-left corner) of each screen

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With multihead setups (where I think xmonad really

shines), it is quite confusing not know which workspace you are looking at on each screen... I only wish I understood Haskell so that I could implement something like this. If

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Don Stewart wrote: the number of the workspace that is being displayed on that screen? Or perhaps have the option of showing this same information in the center of each screen by pressing a hot key? this is a small hack that can be accomplished with three lines of code, please tell me how to do it! :)

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all the best and my thanks for any help ~lara

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Hi! I would love to try xmobar, thank you for the suggestion. The docs suggest enabling it by adding main = xmonad =<< xmobar conf to one's xmonad.hs, but mine already reads main = xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig { -- lots of stuff in here } `additionalKeys' myKeys to enable the nice Gnome integration. How can I combine both? My apologies for the basic question. I would especially like to use it with dynamicLogXinerama, which based on the docs at http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-DynamicLog.html#v%... does *exactly* what I am looking for... ~lara --- On Mon, 5/9/11, wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:

From: wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen? To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 1:23 AM I recommend setting up xmobar and using XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog. It should do pretty much exactly what you want out of the box. ~d

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-DynamicLog.html

Quoting Lara Michaels :

...

Hi everyone,

I just moved to a three-screen setup at work and am suffering from a curious problem: I cannot remember which workspace is being displayed on each of the screens! That makes it pretty time-consuming to switch one screen from its current workspace to a different one.

With the earlier help of list members, I am using showWMName:

import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName

myLayout = layoutHook gnomeConfig -- part of displaying current workspace name using Xmonad.Layout.ShowWName

main = xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig {          manageHook = manageHook gnomeConfig <+> composeAll myManageHook,          workspaces = myWorkspaces,          modMask = mod4Mask, -- makes all xmonad shortcuts be "Windows key + X" (thus not interfering with any app's)      

   borderWidth        = 3,

...

         normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc",      

...

         layoutHook = showWName myLayout          }          `additionalKeysP` myKeys

This gets me a small useful indication of which workspace I am moving to *when I switch from one to the other*.

Similarly, is it possible to permanently display in a corner (e.g., in the bottom-left corner) of each screen the number of the workspace that is being displayed on that screen? Or perhaps have the option of showing this same information in the center of each screen by pressing a hot key?

With multihead setups (where I think xmonad really shines), it is quite confusing not know which workspace you are looking at on each screen... I only wish I understood Haskell so that I could implement something like this. If

   focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00", this is a small hack that can be accomplished with three lines of code, please tell me how to do it! :)

...

all the best and my thanks for any help ~lara

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In case someone else has the same problem I've found this piece of code that does what I need: it tells me which workspaces are visible http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~marriaga/software/xmonad-workspaces-applet/ best ~l --- On Mon, 5/9/11, wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu wrote:

From: wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen? To: xmonad@haskell.org Date: Monday, May 9, 2011, 1:23 AM I recommend setting up xmobar and using XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog. It should do pretty much exactly what you want out of the box. ~d

http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-DynamicLog.html

Quoting Lara Michaels :

...

Hi everyone,

I just moved to a three-screen setup at work and am suffering from a curious problem: I cannot remember which workspace is being displayed on each of the screens! That makes it pretty time-consuming to switch one screen from its current workspace to a different one.

With the earlier help of list members, I am using showWMName:

import XMonad.Layout.ShowWName

myLayout = layoutHook gnomeConfig -- part of displaying current workspace name using Xmonad.Layout.ShowWName

main = xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig {          manageHook = manageHook gnomeConfig <+> composeAll myManageHook,          workspaces = myWorkspaces,          modMask = mod4Mask, -- makes all xmonad shortcuts be "Windows key + X" (thus not interfering with any app's)      

   borderWidth        = 3,

...

         normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc",      

...

         layoutHook = showWName myLayout          }          `additionalKeysP` myKeys

This gets me a small useful indication of which workspace I am moving to *when I switch from one to the other*.

Similarly, is it possible to permanently display in a corner (e.g., in the bottom-left corner) of each screen the number of the workspace that is being displayed on that screen? Or perhaps have the option of showing this same information in the center of each screen by pressing a hot key?

With multihead setups (where I think xmonad really shines), it is quite confusing not know which workspace you are looking at on each screen... I only wish I understood Haskell so that I could implement something like this. If

   focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00", this is a small hack that can be accomplished with three lines of code, please tell me how to do it! :)

...

all the best and my thanks for any help ~lara

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