[xmonad] Retrieving screen resolution + ghci for XMonad

[Thomas Frössman]

I did something similar here:
https://github.com/thomasf/dotfiles-thomasf-xmonad/blob/master/.xmonad/lib/XMonad/Config/A00001.hs#L620

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 16:16, Nicolas Dudebout
<nicolas.dudebout at gatech.edu>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to align a dzen2 bar to the right of my screen.
> A dzen2 bar is aligned by giving an offset from the left side of the
> screen.
> Since I have a single xmonad.hs for multiple computers, I would like to
> retrieve the width of the screen from XMonad.
> I found the following snippet online:
> main = do
>      (_, out, _, process_handle) <- runInteractiveCommand "echo WIDTH |
> eval m4 `xrdb -symbols`"
>      ...
> This does not seem really satisfactory.
> I know this information is available from inside XMonad, probably in a
> ScreenDetail from XMonad.Core.
>
> My question is: "How can I retrieve this number from XMonad?"
>
> Another way look at that the question is: "What is the best way to figure
> out things in XMonad?"
> I have a specific question, found a potential candidate in the
> documentation, and would like to experiment before changing my xmonad.hs.
> Is there a way to use ghci to look around?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Thomas Frössman
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