[xmonad] Per-workspace Application Instances

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 17:20:56 UTC 2014


On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Chris Bell <cwbell at mail.usf.edu> wrote:

> The problem is, I don't know where to start with this. My idea was to
> use environment variables to identify the current workspace, but I'm
> not sure how to. Any suggestions/ideas are greatly appreciated!
>

Add EwmhDesktops to your config and use wmctrl or xprop -root to get the
current desktop. Both will require processing the output: "wmctrl -d"
indicates the current desktop with an asterisk and "xprop -root -notype
_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP" includes the property name.

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