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Workspace bar widget highlights the same workspace on all monitors instead of each monitor's own active workspace
Reported by cjoprey · filed Sep 7, 2026Closed upstream on 2026-09-21 by bjarneo via an automated message, as a duplicate of #8183 (R-1479). GitHub close reason: completed.
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Original report
What happened
On a two-monitor setup, the workspace indicator widget in the bar (omarchy.workspaces) highlights the same workspace number as "active" on both monitors' bars, even though each monitor is genuinely displaying a different workspace.
Steps to reproduce
- Use two monitors, each showing a different workspace (e.g. workspace 1 on the primary monitor, workspace 2 on the secondary monitor).
- Observe the bar's workspace widget on each monitor.
- Press
SUPER+<N>to switch to a workspace already displayed on the other monitor (Hyprland's globalworkspacedispatcher just moves focus to that monitor instead of moving windows — this part is expected Hyprland behavior). - Notice that both bars now highlight workspace
<N>as "focused", even though only one monitor is actually showing/using it.
Expected behavior
Each monitor's bar should highlight whichever workspace is actually active/displayed on that monitor, not a single globally-focused workspace shared across all bars.
Root cause (found in source)
In shell/plugins/bar/widgets/Workspaces.qml:
readonly property bool focused: Hyprland.focusedWorkspace !== null && Hyprland.focusedWorkspace.id === modelDataHyprland.focusedWorkspace is a single global property representing the workspace of whichever monitor currently has keyboard focus. Since the bar is instantiated once per monitor (per the comment in shell/Ui/BarWidget.qml), each bar instance evaluates this same global value, so all bars highlight the same workspace number regardless of which workspace is actually shown on that particular monitor.
The fix should compare against that widget instance's own monitor's active workspace (e.g. via the monitor associated with the bar surface) instead of the global Hyprland.focusedWorkspace.
System details
- Omarchy version: 4.0.2-1
- Setup: two monitors (
eDP-1laptop panel +DP-5external), configured in~/.config/hypr/monitors.lua
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## What happened On a two-monitor setup, the workspace indicator widget in the bar (`omarchy.workspaces`) highlights the **same workspace number as "active" on both monitors' bars**, even though each monitor is genuinely displaying a different workspace. ### Steps to reproduce 1. Use two monitors, each showing a different workspace (e.g. workspace 1 on the primary monitor, workspace 2 on the secondary monitor). 2. Observe the bar's workspace widget on each monitor. 3. Press `SUPER+<N>` to switch to a workspace already displayed on the *other* monitor (Hyprland's global `workspace` dispatcher just moves focus to that monitor instead of moving windows — this part is expected Hyprland behavior). 4. Notice that **both** bars now highlight workspace `<N>` as "focused", even though only one monitor is actually showing/using it. ### Expected behavior Each monitor's bar should highlight whichever workspace is actually active/displayed **on that monitor**, not a single globally-focused workspace shared across all bars. ### Root cause (found in source) In `shell/plugins/bar/widgets/Workspaces.qml`: ```qml readonly property bool focused: Hyprland.focusedWorkspace !== null && Hyprland.focusedWorkspace.id === modelData ``` `Hyprland.focusedWorkspace` is a single global property representing the workspace of whichever monitor currently has keyboard focus. Since the bar is instantiated once per monitor (per the comment in `shell/Ui/BarWidget.qml`), each bar instance evaluates this same global value, so all bars highlight the same workspace number regardless of which workspace is actually shown on that particular monitor. The fix should compare against that widget instance's own monitor's active workspace (e.g. via the monitor associated with the bar surface) instead of the global `Hyprland.focusedWorkspace`. ## System details - Omarchy version: 4.0.2-1 - Setup: two monitors (`eDP-1` laptop panel + `DP-5` external), configured in `~/.config/hypr/monitors.lua`
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