[xmonad] Re: Issue 197 in xmonad: Blocking on nextEvent stops other threads from running

Comment #8 on issue 197 by nwfilardo: Blocking on nextEvent stops other threads from running http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=197 As a counterpoint, if xmonad is spawning processes and wanting to respond to their deaths, there's not really a more convenient answer than forkOS getProcessStatus . The "catch SIGCHLD and dispatch" answer is inconvenient since the signals take place in the IO monad, not the X monad. Thoughts?