13 Mar
2009
13 Mar
'09
2:21 p.m.
2) Create a pipe somewhere with "mkfifo foo" and edit your rc file to read this pipe instead. Then fire up xmobar and in your terminal do "cat > fifo". Then start typing lines and see whether they show up in xmobar.
Interesting. This test doesn't work here. Platform dependent?
(I'm using linux x86_64 and ghc 6.8.2)
I'm also on x86_64 but am using ghc 6.8.3, and it works here. What happens when you do the above? Do you get an error or simply nothing? Also, are you running the latest xmobar (ie, darcs version)? I'm not sure whether this makes any difference, of course. -N