[xmonad] xmobar dynamic spacing

[Brandon Allbery]

Polybar is a popular alternative. I'll have to dig the rest of your
message out of the spamtrap :/ (or more likely let someone more
familiar with xmobar do it) but xmobar isn't really good at dynamic
spacing.

On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 10:07 AM Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
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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?
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