[xmonad] "wmctrl -l" lists all my windows as being on the same workspace (0)

[Lara Michaels]

Hi Tobias,

Thank you for your help.

I tried adding the line


        , startupHook           = ewmhDesktopsStartup                                                                                                                           

but it made no difference. What I have realized, though, is that wmctrl correctly reports on which workspace each window is when I am running my laptop in "standalone" mode (ie, without external screens). When I plug in an  external screen, suddenly  wmctrl -l reports all windows as being in the currently active workspace:

0x02000005  2 ubuntu root at ubuntu: ~
0x02c000a3  2 ubuntu Mozilla Firefox
0x0200015c  2 ubuntu l at ubuntu: ~

if I workspace 2 currently has focus and if, eg, workspace 0 has focus then


0x02000005  0 ubuntu root at ubuntu: ~
0x02c000a3  0 ubuntu Yahoo! Mail - Mozilla Firefox
0x0200015c  0 ubuntu l at ubuntu: ~

Any idea on how I might fix this? Does it have to do with xinerama?

thanks!
~l


----- Original Message -----
From: Tobias Hommel <tobi at keksbude.net>
To: Lara Michaels <laramichaels1978 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "xmonad at haskell.org" <xmonad at haskell.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: [xmonad] "wmctrl -l" lists all my windows as being on the same workspace (0)

Hey Lara,

for me wmctrl works, but I have an additional line in my config:
        , startupHook           = ewmhDesktopsStartup                                                                                                                            

From the documentation:
> Initializes EwmhDesktops and advertises EWMH support to the X server 
Maybe this solves your problem.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:58:00AM -0700, Lara Michaels wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> When I run wmctrl -l, it lists all my windows as being on the same workspace (workspace 0):
> 
> 0x03600005  0 ubuntu l at ubuntu: ~
> 0x02a000a3  0 ubuntu Mozilla Firefox
> 0x03a000a3  0 ubuntu Inbox - Local Folders - Mozilla Thunderbird
> 
> However, when I run wmctrl -d it "knows" xmonad is using 7 workspaces named "1" through "7":
> 
> 0  * DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  1
> 1  - DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  2
> 2  - DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  3
> 3  - DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  4
> 4  - DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  5
> 5  - DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  6
> 6  - DG: N/A  VP: N/A  WA: N/A  7
> 
> How can I get wmctrl to play nicely with xmonad? From searching the web I thought this would do the trick:
> 
> import XMonad.Hooks.EwmhDesktops
> 
> main =  do
>     xmonad $ ewmh gnomeConfig { modMask = mod4Mask
>                        , manageHook = manageDocks  manageHook defaultConfig
>                        , workspaces = myWorkspaces
>                        , normalBorderColor  = "#cccccc"
>                        , focusedBorderColor = "#cd8b00"
>                        , borderWidth = 3
>                        , layoutHook = showWName myLayout
>                        , logHook =  ewmhDesktopsLogHook <+> dynamicLogXinerama
>                        , handleEventHook = ewmhDesktopsEventHook
>                        } `additionalKeysP` myKeys
> 
> 
> but wmctrl still says all windows are on workspace 0.
> 
> 
> thank you for any help
> ~l
> 
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Regards,
Tobi