[Xmonad] Re: Remote Controlling XMonad: Cases and Materials

[Tobias Hammerschmidt]

Nathan Howell schrieb:
> Andrea Rossato wrote:
>> I do not want you to equivocate: I'm not pushing for this patch to be
>> included, but I thought to report here some of the information I was
>> able to gather on the subject. Moreover, as far as I can understand,
>> there's is not so much interest in this feature. But here this stuff
>> proved to be quite addictive...;-)
> 
> I'm one of the people who is interested in having this capability (a 
> small example of use: changing workspaces or setting layouts via dzen 
> menus), and it's great to see someone investigating it. Thanks, Andrea.
> 
> Nathan
> 
I like the idea too! Maybe this is a little bit off-topic but why don't
use a standard like dbus? There are allready some haskell bindings out
there (http://neugierig.org/software/hdbus/ -- ok they were not updated
for about a year but maybe it could be a point to start from though).

Tobias