On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:17:00AM -0400, gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting is how bluetiledock achieves this functionality, how it makes xmonad actually do something - it seems to be using a X-based method of IPC, in which a integer is stored in an X atom and xmonad then grabs it and does something with it:
It sounds like the already existing X.H.ServerMode, which has a horribly inflexible API, since it always uses a fixed list of commands, that can not be changed conveniently. I'll submit a patch later, so that one could use that module instead and avoid code duplication.
- XMonad.Hooks.EventHook Old code? Seems to've been removed in darcs XMC
Yes, it has been replaced by handleEventHook in core. Using that instead should be a trivial change.
And the string atom stuff has already been done by Stumpwm/Ratpoison, and I asked for this in the past - XMonad should be scriptable from the outside.
FWIW: I got a half-ready solution about this in xmonad-extras, which allows sending Haskell expressions via socket, but perhaps a language-agnostic IPC facility might also be a good thing(a lot more work though, if it should be general and flexible): http://code.haskell.org/xmonad-extras/documentation/XMonad-Hooks-EvalServer....