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dado3212 / spaces-renamer

💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+
MIT License
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Access spaces' names #31

Closed alextechtai closed 5 years ago

alextechtai commented 6 years ago

Is there any way to access the names of the spaces? I'm trying use this with up TextBar Hoping I could get the space name to display in status bar.

dado3212 commented 6 years ago

~/Library/Containers/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer.plist contains the naming mapping from space UUID to name.

~/Library/Containers/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer.currentspaces.plist contains the current spaces and their ordering.

My renamer does some educated guesswork for multiple monitor detection, so it can usually properly pair them. I looked into adding the space name to the status bar in issue #5 but there was no way in macOS to differentiate the status bar between monitors, so it broke multi-monitor support. I'm curious if TextBar found a way around that.