On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:24 AM, adam vogt
Finally, do you have an example of something you can do with the eventGetter that cannot be done with handleEventHook?
One thing I've wanted is the ability to hook into GHC's I/O manager instead of polling X11 directly. Currently, other threads will not run until xmonad receives an X11 event, because it's blocked in the FFI instead of the I/O manager monitoring the X11 socket. This also means you can't sensibly wait on both a socket/pipe and X11 events. (Doing the above right also implies that either we synthesize X11 events for non-X11 events, or add an additional eventHook for them. The latter is probably easier, since the former either needs to "steal" an event type from X11 or a rather nonsensical patch to the X11 bindings to support a non-X11 event as an "X11" event type.) -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net