Yes, I just tried it right now and I think it is the same use case. I didn't know about it. The only difference with my module is that mine doesn't need Dzen but the Dzen module is more flexible and powerful. My patch is useless. Mario 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

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...