On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 04:36:49PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:29:27PM +0100, Andrea Rossato wrote:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:52:48PM -0500, David Roundy wrote:
We'd definitely want to figure out a way to get a timer event into xmonad.
yes, something like this would be great. I don't know is the X server can do that. I need to investigate (but I have the feeling the answer is no).
I can't help but think that there must be an elegant solution. :(
Here's an idea that's at least self-contained: We could fork a process that waits one second and then uses XSendEvent() to send a message to the other, and then exits. This seems reasonably elegant. It avoids the need for an external binary, it's moderately efficient (probably more so than execing a new binary), and we could even encapsulate it in a simple function. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University