[xmonad] xmobar dynamic spacing

[Eyal Erez]

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Content preview:  Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Also, are there any
   recommended alternatives to xmobar? On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 7:40 PM Eyal
   Erez wrote: > Hi, > > I hope that this is the right place to ask. If not,
   please let me know. > > I use xmonad with xmobar and trayer. Trayer is set
   in the upper right > corner, and xmobar fills the remainder of the top of
   the screen. I have > several right-aligned widgets, including date/time,
  CPU, memory, network, > etc., and two left-aligned widgets, which are the
  active workspace name and > the name of the active window. Currently, I set
   the name of the active > window to "shorten 200" in my xmonad.hs file. However,
   I use several > monitors with varying screen sizes, so it is challenging
  to set an > absolute value. When the screen is narrow, and the window title
   is long, it > pushes some widgets out of the right side of xmobar. I would
   like the > window title to take up as much space as possible but leave the
   other > right-aligned widgets where they are. Is there any way to do that?
   > > Short window title > [image: image.png] > > Long window title > [image:
   image.png] > > -- > There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and
   those who don't. > > [...] 

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