[Xmonad] xmobar-0.7rc1 testers needed

[Spencer Janssen]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 12:27:38 Andrea Rossato wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I added XEvents handling to xmobar, a status bar you should know
> I'm writing.
>
> Now, this is more difficult of what I first thought, since xmobar makes
> heavy use of Haskell threads.
>
> Since we need to call XNextEvent, it seems, as far as I can
> understand, that this is going to block every other Haskell threads,
> unless the threaded RTS is used and/or (?) forkOS (which requires
> anyway the threaded RTS) is used instead of forkIO.
>
> While this is working fine on my system, I have a system with an old
> Xorg build (I cannot compile X11-1.2.2 and X11-extras on that
> machine), which seem to block all threads no matter what I do. This is
> not a valuable test for me, so I need testers to confirm or refute my
> personal test.
>
> Here you can grab the source, which now requires x11-extras (I think
> that 0.2 should go, but I did not check: please let me know if you
> find out):
>
> http://gorgias.mine.nu/xmobar/xmobar-0.7rc1.tar.gz
>
> If no tester will show up, well, no problem: no refreshing
> xmobar will be released....;-)
>
> ciao
> andrea

It seems to work on my machine.  I have a recent Xlib (the XCB based 1.1.2).

I tried replacing forkOS with forkIO, and things still seemed to work.  
However, removing -threaded caused serious hangs before text updates (perhaps 
only happening after each expose event?).


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen