Comment #7 on issue 350 by vogt.adam: Investigate using Dyre for xmonad configuration http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=350 I have not heard either way. That being said, my changes aren't complete and I was more or less asking for help in this (dated Nov 1, 2010): The following darcs repository xmonad uses dyre: http://code.haskell.org/~aavogt/xmonad-dyre/ I'm using ghc-6.12.3 and some part of the recompile seems to die: If I touch ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs, then (xmonad --restart, or use a keybind to restart (Right True)) the WM exits due to this exception: Configuration '/home/aavogt/.xmonad/xmonad.hs' changed. Recompiling. xmonad: waitForProcess: does not exist (No child processes) The recompile dies with the same exception here, but the result is correct: touch ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs; xmonad --recompile; xmonad --restart Some feature requests, somewhat related to what's already done in xmonad. (see http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=350) 1. there should be a way bypass dyre's recompilation checking; and force that executable to exit once recompilation is done. For the latter I've tried unsuccessfully: - write a global IORef before using dyre, and read it in the realMain which I'm not sure why that doesn't work - set config parameters, which obviously doesn't work since the config in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs shouldn't ask for early exit 2. dyre's recompilation checking could look in ./lib given -ilib, which makes changing files in a modular config trigger a recompile Thanks for you help, Adam