On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:27:42PM -0400, Sean McEligot wrote:
I thought it was nice to run the status bar internally. I prefer using Haskell to shell scripts and internal status information would be available that otherwise would not. The one drawback is I was unable to find a way to refresh at regular intervals. So, for example, A clock wouldn't be updated until the user switched windows.
Yup, this is a definite drawback. The problem, of course, is that the logHook only runs when xmonad's status changes. Actually, I wonder if we could use the new eventHandlerHook (or whatever it's called) to run the logHook at regular intervals (it shouldn't hurt to run the logHook *more* often). We just need some external process to generate synthetic X events of some sort. Anyone know how to do that -Brent