[xmonad] Multiple threads

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Ernesto Rodriguez <neto at netowork.me> wrote:

> Oh well, thank you for the reply :) I am trying to do some networking
> stuff in the X Monad. Do you think there is some workaround such that I do
> the networking in an additional thread and then when it is done I fire some
> X11 event that XMonad can be programed to handle and then it can read the
> data recovered from the network and display it?


That would be the ClientMessage I mentioned. You would have your thread
openDisplay for itself, do whatever, and then use sendMessage to send a
ClientMessage event to the main thread; you then use handleEventHook to
catch that event.


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