[xmonad] xmobar dynamic spacing

[Platon Pronko]

Maybe you can customize the value you provide to `shorten` depending on the screen size?

(a bit crumbesome, but might be easier than switching between bar applications, especially since polybar seems to have difficulties with displaying Xmonad workspaces info)

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Best regards,
Platon Pronko
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On 2023-03-24 22:11, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> 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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