Finding the number of X11 screens from Haskell

Question

I\'d like to know how many X screens the current machine has, to make my .xmonad a little more general; I have a netbook as well as a desktop with two monitors, and I use se

Answer 1

If you use the X11 package:

 import Graphics.X11.Xinerama (getScreenInfo)

that will dynamically return a list of Rectangles, telling you how many screens, and their dimensions.