[xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen?

[Lara Michaels]

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?

> 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 <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [xmonad] is it possible to display workspace number on the corresponding screen?
> To: "Lara Michaels" <laramichaels1978 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: xmonad at 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.
> 
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com>
> 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
> > <laramichaels1978 at yahoo.com>
> 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
> 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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