On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Lara Michaels
but to my surprise running 'tail -f /tmp/xmonad-fifo' shows no output, while if I simply start xmonad in a terminal I can see it printing information about the workspaces being used to the terminal:
At a guess, you've just demonstrated that nobody has been using dynamicLogXinerama. It isn't flushing its output, and I can't find anywhere where xmonad sets its stdout to unbuffered or line buffered output. Output to a terminal is automatically line buffered, so in that case it works as expected; block buffering means it'd only get flushed to the FIFO every 4Kbytes or so. You could try importing System.IO and adding hSetBuffering stdout LineBuffering to the startupHook. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms