Re: [xmonad] getting a string from a user

lowly coder wrote:

I need to get a string from the user + do funky things with it.

This is like inverse of spawn "xmessage ... "

Dmenu does not "work" because I don't want to immediately run the program -- I need xmonad to get the string + do things with it + control how the program is started.

How can I do this?

You could use this: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.8.1/doc/html/XM... (dmenu by itself doesn't immediately execute a program either, but outputs the string to stdout)