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A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
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BSPWM and XFCE4 not agreeing on workspaces #1499

Open loicvanheckeULB opened 2 months ago

loicvanheckeULB commented 2 months ago

Configuration :

neofetch

Description of the issue

When starting my session with XFCE, using bspwm as my window manager, there seems to be a problem with the way both of these manage the workspaces/(virtual) desktops, especially their names. I need to force restart bspwm to get the right names (the ones I'm using in my bspwmrc file) displayed in the workspace manager in the panel.

Panel and workspace manager after login

ws_1

Panel and workspace manager after bspwm restart

ws_2

Additional comment

When going to the settings editor of XFCE, into the xfwm4 channel, I have found a property named workspace_names. It indeed lists the weird virtual desktops names. In the case of my visuals, they were listed as ["Desktop", "I", "II", "III", "IV", "Workspace 6", "VII", "VIII", "IX", "Workspace 10"].

There is a Reset button at the bottom of the window, suggesting a reinitialization of the parameter. When pressing it, it correctly renamed the virtual desktops, excepted for the last one. It now reports the names of the virtual desktops like this : ["I", "II", "III", "IV", "V", "VI", "VII", "VIII", "IX", "Workspace 10" ]. So I had to restart bspwm anyways.

ortango commented 3 weeks ago

You need to disable all xfce workspace management so that it does not conflict with the external WM.