[xmonad] Which GTK-Engine do you use (if any)

[Александър Л. Димитров]

Hi Jeremy,

> > http://omploader.org/vcDZn
>
> Your workspaces look very interesting to say the least. Would you mind
> explaining your philosophy for them? Also, I like the different colors
> for each.

Well, I'm using the DynamicWorkspaces extension to be able to add workspaces in
a manner similar to wmii. Those 'dynamically' added WSes usually don't get a
color and just take the default, though it would not be an issue to provide them
with one. I just happen to have run out of attractive colors…

Workspaces are strictly 'semantic', meaning I'm using one workspace for one
task. I think that's used a lot in the tiling WM crowd. The names should be
mostly self-explanatory, except 'comm' being an abbreviation for
'communication', hosting my IRC sessions and mail (and news, but I rarely use it
these days).

About the colors: that's a nice little hack based on a Data.Map that associates
workspace names with colors. I thank shepheb of #xmonad for helping me working
this out. Here's what I ended up doing:

> wsCode = "code"
> wsWeb  = "web"
> wsCode'= "code'"
> wsMail = "comm"
> wsDoc  = "doc"
> wsWork = "work"
> wsWrite= "write"
> wsTest = "test"
> wsMisc = "misc"
> wsLog  = "logs"
> wsRead = "read"
> 
> -- Workspace colors map
> wsCols :: M.Map WorkspaceId [Char]
> wsCols = M.fromList $
> 	[ (wsCode,  "#aaccee")
> 	, (wsWeb,   "#eebbaa")
> 	, (wsCode', "#aa99ee")
> 	, (wsMail,  "#bb99aa")
> 	, (wsDoc,   "#bbdd99")
> 	, (wsWork,  "#edcd88")
> 	, (wsTest,  "#ee8844")
> 	, (wsMisc,  "grey90")
> 	, (wsLog,   "#ee9988")
> 	, (wsWrite, "#aaeebb")
> 	, (wsRead,  "#888888") ]
> 
> -- Workspaces, in the order xmonad knows them
> myWorkspaces = [  wsCode , wsCode' , wsMail , wsWeb , wsDoc , wsTest
> 		, wsWrite , wsRead , wsWork , wsLog , wsMisc ]
> 
> -- Graphical setup
> myBgColor		= "#0a0c0f"
> myFgColor		= "#aacccc"
> myBgColor'		= "'" ++ myBgColor ++ "'" -- quote-escaped for dzen2
> myFgColor'		= "'" ++ myFgColor ++ "'" -- quote-escaped for dzen2
> myFont			= "'-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*'"
> myNormalBorderColor	= myBgColor
> myFocusedBorderColor	= myFgColor
> myBitmapsDir		= "/home/aleks/etc/dzen2"
> myHighlightFG		= "#eeeeee"
> myHighlightBG		= "#3a5a5a"
> 
> myPP h = defaultPP
> 	{ ppCurrent = wrap ("^bg(" ++ myHighlightBG ++ ") ^fg("++ myHighlightFG ++")") (" ^bg()")
> 	, ppHidden = (\wsName -> dzenColor (
> 			case (M.lookup wsName wsCols) of
> 				Nothing 	-> myFocusedBorderColor
> 				Just color 	-> color)
> 			"" wsName)
> 	, ppLayout  = (\lName -> "^bg()^fg()" ++ case lName of
> 			"Tall"			-> " ^i(" ++ myBitmapsDir ++ "/tall.xbm) "
> 			"Mirror Tall"		-> " ^i(" ++ myBitmapsDir ++ "/mirrortall.xbm) "
> 			"Full"			-> " ^i(" ++ myBitmapsDir ++ "/full.xbm) "
> 			"Dishes 2 (1%6)"	-> " ^i(" ++ myBitmapsDir ++ "/dishes.xbm) "
> 			"Mirror Dishes 2 (1%6)"	-> " ^i(" ++ myBitmapsDir ++ "/dishes_mirrored.xbm) "
> 			otherwise		-> lName)
> 	, ppSep     = " "
> 	, ppTitle   = dzenColor myHighlightFG myHighlightBG . wrap " " "^bg(black)" . staticString 100
> 	, ppOutput  = hPutStrLn h
> 	-- , ppExtras  = logLoad : L.date ("^pa(1250)^bg() %a, %b %d ^fg(white)%H:%M^fg()") : []
> 	}

I also had the idea of using the foreground color for the WSes as a background
color when they are selected, but I found that to be too distracting.

Best,
Aleks
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