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Atomsky

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Registered: 2018-02-16

Posts: 19

Workspace names change automatically!

I have been trying to configure my polybar in bspwm recently. To get the names of the workspaces, I used the xprop command.

$ xprop -root _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES 
_NET_DESKTOP_NAMES(UTF8_STRING) = "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "9", ""

However, my bspwmrc has the following.

bspc monitor -d 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 z

I have noticed a few things while trying to solve the issue.

• The workspace names change a few seconds after bspwm starts. Polybar workspace icons also change at that point.

• I have tried using

  bspc monitor -d I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X

  but the names revert to numbers including two 9s.

• Setting less than 10 workspaces does not introduce any duplicates. However, the names keep changing to numbers regardless of what I specify in the bspwmrc file.

• If I set the workspace names after starting bspwm, the names don't change.

  _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES(UTF8_STRING) = "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "z"

  is shown then.

• I have excluded my polybar config to check whether this is caused by any polybar scripts. But, excluding polybar doesn't have any effect on this behavior.