I make heavy use of workspaces, and have a lot of them (a 6×4 grid). I usually run openbox, but am currently using a machine that doesn't have openbox set up, so I'm using xfce because it's already mostly configured to my liking. I've gotten used to getting visual feedback when I switch workspaces, showing me which one I've just moved to, and am finding myself a bit disoriented in xfce. In openbox this is a big heads-up display, which is pretty much ideal. I'm aware that the workspace switcher panel applet will highlight the active workspace, but this only seems to work for workspaces which have some desktop space showing; since I generally have all my windows maximized, this isn't super helpful.
Is there a way to enable visual feedback showing the new workspace when switching workspaces in xfce?
Best Answer
If you're so inclined, you can install
pyxfceand somehow handleactive_workspace_changedcallback, e.g. by showing a notification vianotify-sendoraosd_cat. But this is, of course, a hack, and no, I didn't try it.