Re: [xmonad] Visual hints for XMonad actions

I'm trying to figure out why ShowWName doesn't use the dzen module to show the workspace name, what is the rule to use dzen instead of createNewWindow (for example) and why? On 12/27/2012 12:00 PM, xmonad-request@haskell.org wrote:

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I wrote a patch for xmonad-contrib 0.10.1 to include an action to show some text in the centre of the screen. The patch is based on XMonad.Layout.ShowWName (thank you again Brandon Allbery) but it is an action and not a layout modifier. In this way it could be used to show some text when a key is pressed, for example. It includes an event handler to destroy the window after the timeout. Isn't this pretty much the exact use-case dzen was designed for? Just use spawn "dzen" manually, or, if you're into that kind of thing, try

Message: 2 Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:50:44 -0500 From: wagnerdm@seas.upenn.edu Subject: Re: [xmonad] Visual hints for XMonad actions To: xmonad@haskell.org Message-ID: <20121226135044.93047io82qmqzbic@webmail.seas.upenn.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Quoting Mario Pastorelli : the module X.U.Dzen[1].

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[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.10/doc/html/XMo...