Spencer Janssen writes:
The consensus seems to be that we should fix logHook rather than changing spawn.
Attached is a module providing a log hook that starts its own dzen. This is very kludgy but shows that it can be achieved. Use it by putting in Config.hs: import XMonadContrib.StatusBar logHook = statusBar defaultSBConf This log hook includes window titles, but in order for them to be updated properly Main.hs need to be hacked to call logHook on XPropertyNotify events. I achieve this with: hunk ./Main.hs 254 -handle e = broadcastMessage e -- trace (eventName e) -- ignoring +handle e = do + case e of + (AnyEvent {ev_event_type = t}) + | t == propertyNotify -> updateProperties + _ -> return () + broadcastMessage e -- trace (eventName e) -- ignoring hunk ./Operations.hs 253 + +updateProperties :: X () +updateProperties = logHook I hope this is of some inspiration to others. Toby.