<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 31, 2007 8:20 AM, Andrea Rossato <<a href="mailto:mailing_list@istitutocolli.org">mailing_list@istitutocolli.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:52:48PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:<br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Another approach, of course, would be to simply call an external program<br>> that displays the workspace name and then vanishes. It's a little hokey,
<br>> but I suspect kdialog could do it pretty nicely. Actually, a simple<br>><br>> spawn "kdialog --passivepopup \"" ++ string ++ "\" 1"<br>><br>> ought to do the trick. It's less easily configurable (except by kde
<br>> users), and requires that kdialog be installed, but it's pretty simple.<br><br></div>I just pushed a version of ShowWName which uses denz to display to<br>workspace name.<br><br>dzen is probably the most common application among xmonad users.
<br><br>Hope it can be useful for someone.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Andrea<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><br>I just tried this out and it seems to be broken for me. If I add 'showWName' to my layout and restart, it works fine until I close a window: after closing a window, the next workspace switch displays the workspace name just fine, but all subsequent workspace switches just display a little black box, as if the workspace name were empty.
<br><br>If you want I can file a bug report on the google code issue tracker too.<br><br>-Brent<br></div>