[xmonad] Externally determine active workspace

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Mina Nagy Zaki <mnzaki at gmail.com> wrote:

> is there a way to determine the currently active workspace (that which
> contains the focused window) externally, i.e., through a command line
> utility?
>

If you have EwmhDesktops active, you can extract it from

    xprop -root -notype _NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP

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