[xmonad] Externally determine active workspace

[Mina Nagy Zaki]

Imported and enabled EwmhDesktops and that did the trick, thanks a lot!

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates
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Mina Nagy Zaki