On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:52:48PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
We'd definitely want to figure out a way to get a timer event into xmonad.
yes, something like this would be great. I don't know is the X server can do that. I need to investigate (but I have the feeling the answer is no).
Another approach, of course, would be to simply call an external program that displays the workspace name and then vanishes. It's a little hokey, but I suspect kdialog could do it pretty nicely.
without installing any 3rd party stuff, I think we could just create some binaries, along with the library created by xmonad-contrib. We could have this very little program to display the workspace name (or any other string), with a timer. Then we could add some other utilities, such as a screen locker, a pointer hider, and so. The stuff I was hacking as xmonad-utils, and that I'm actually using. Or just have this 3 package: xmonad-utils, a small set of x utilities like the one I was talking about. what do you think? Andrea