<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Henrique,<br><br>A graphical pager would also be a great way to solve both my problems. I am on Ubuntu and tried enabling the one that comes with the Gnome panel ("Workspace switcher"), but though everything works I can only see the shaded contours of the windows on the different workspaces... Is there a way to have it show either an icon or a miniaturized "preview" of what each window is displaying?<br><br>Unfortunately "pager" is one of the most difficult words to google for, since it assumes that I mean "page". : )<br><br>Many thanks!<br>lara<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 7/17/10, Henrique G. Abreu <i><hgabreu@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Henrique G. Abreu <hgabreu@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [xmonad] knowing what is on each workspace and/or
knowing which workspace I am looking at<br>To: "Lara Michaels" <laramichaels1978@yahoo.com><br>Cc: xmonad@haskell.org<br>Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10:47 PM<br><br><div id="yiv888284184">It seems like you need a "bar" that shows you these info.<div>Something like xmobar, dzen, plus a logHook or any graphical pager with EwmhDesktops.</div><div>Some pagers shows windows icons at the workspaces, others a "preview" of the layout, etc.</div>
<div>I've heard there's some problem though in setting them to understand xmonad multiple monitors.</div><div><br clear="all">Henrique G. Abreu<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 16:34, Lara Michaels <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:laramichaels1978@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=laramichaels1978@yahoo.com">laramichaels1978@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear all,<br>
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I never managed to have a way of knowing either<br>
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1- on which workspace a particular program is open<br>
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or<br>
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2- which workspace is being displayed on each of my monitors (eg, "on this monitor you are looking at workspace 1")<br>
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Is there a way to get either of these behaviors? Without this information, I do spend some serious time zapping across workspaces to find the window I need.<br>
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I thought that an easy way to address (2) would be to use an OSD (like libnotify) to pop up a notification providing the workspace name/number when the user switches workspaces. Is there a "hook" in xmonad to which I could link a command "run notification saying this is workspace X"?<br>
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Many thanks for any help<br>
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~lara<br>
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