On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:32:35PM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 02:27:42PM -0400, Sean McEligot wrote:
I thought it was nice to run the status bar internally. I prefer using Haskell to shell scripts and internal status information would be available that otherwise would not. The one drawback is I was unable to find a way to refresh at regular intervals. So, for example, A clock wouldn't be updated until the user switched windows.
Yup, this is a definite drawback. The problem, of course, is that the logHook only runs when xmonad's status changes.
Actually, I wonder if we could use the new eventHandlerHook (or whatever it's called) to run the logHook at regular intervals (it shouldn't hurt to run the logHook *more* often). We just need some external process to generate synthetic X events of some sort. Anyone know how to do that
I answered my own question. In fact, it was even easier than I thought; it didn't involve the eventHook at all. I just made a new keybinding which runs the logHook, and then wrote a little script which uses xdotool to generate the key combination in question every ten seconds. A bit of a hack, perhaps, but so far it seems to work pretty well. ...actually, I take that back, it's not quite as nice as you might like, since if I happen to be holding down another modifier key at the time that the key event gets generated, weird things happen. And sometimes when I'm typing I'll lose a keystroke, presumably if I type something at the same time as the generated event. Weird, there has to be a better way to do this. -Brent