[xmonad] Dynamic xmobar spawning

adam vogt vogt.adam at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 04:06:22 CET 2011


* On Friday, December 16 2011, adam vogt wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Ben Boeckel <mathstuf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to get XMonad to spawn an xmobar for each monitor based on the
>> current number of montiors that are present. This includes spawning new
>> instances when monitors appear and tearing them down when they're taken
>> offline[1]. I've gotten most of the logic done (on a branch that I've
>> neglected to push from my work machines yet) and it involves some code
>> from adamvo's config[3] including getScreens, multiPP, and
>> mergePPOutputs which would indeed be good to get into contrib.
>
>Good to see those parts of my config are useful. I think those functions didn't
>end up in contrib since at the time I wasn't sure if those definitions could be
>improved by either (1) being simpler to use or (2) being less restrictive.
>
>I believe Tomas Janousek also has something similar in his configuration,
>though I don't recall where to find it.

This seems to be it:
https://github.com/liskin/liskin-xmonad-conf

-- Adam



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