2009/8/15 Bozelos Dimitris
1) Sometimes programs are placed in different order than asked in the startup hook, probably because of different startup times. Also sometimes one program might need another to successfully run. So is there a way to have xmonad to wait until one program has fully started before proceeded to the next? In my case something like
myStartupHook = do spawn "xterm -e '/usr/bin/jackd -R -dalsa -r48000'" a command for " wait until jackd has ran " or " wait 5 seconds " and then spawn "xterm -e 'chuck --loop --srate48000'"
Back when I was using ratpoison & stumpwm, the advice was to use the xtoolwait program which will start a program and wait for it to map an X window before exiting. I'd guess you'd do something like 'spawn "xtoolwait jacked && xterm"'. (Jacked is a GUI program? If it isn't, regular shell scripting should be fine, shouldn't it?) -- gwern