xmonad-entryhelper

This package is for those who loves to keep things in sandboxes.

After suffering from dependency hell several times, I find it really helps to minimize system level packages and keep other packages either in user level or in sandboxes.

I was able to remove xmonad from system packages, and have ~/.xinitrc to call my compiled xmonad config. But soon I realized, different from xmonad itself, the compiled config cannot do some fancy stuff like up-to-date checking, recompilation & send xmonad restart requests.

Therefore I wrote this package to wrap the main function to deal with xmonad arguments like --recompile and --restart. This makes the compiled binary behave like xmonad binary itself.

Additionally with this package you will be able to customize recompiling action:
for example you can use Makefile to manage your xmonad config and set environment variable $XMONAD_HOME to your xmonad path. Then you can make your "xmonad --recompile" call shell command "cd ${XMONAD_HOME} && make all" to do the job.

Hope you like this package!


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