[Xmonad] [dzen] keyboard control & dynamic color support

[Robert Manea]

Hi,

if anyone would like to give dynamic color support and keyboard control
in dzen a try should checkout svn trunk:

svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen

* Keyboard support:
  -----------------

  add the keys to action bindings like this:

  -e 'key_Escape=exit;key_j=scrolldown;key_k=scrollup'

  The part after 'key_' corresponds to keysymdef.h (the part after
  'XK_')

  Two new actions were introduced "grabkeys" and "ungrabkeys", useful in
  combination with the "onstart" event in order let dzen grab the
  keyboard right after startup.


* Dynamic color support:
  ----------------------

  pipe lines like the following to dzen:

  echo "^#cc11ffTEXTTOBECOLOREDHERE" | ./dzen2 -p

  For a quick test use this:
  {echo title; sleep 1; echo "^#cc11fffooooo"; \
   sleep 1; echo "^#ddaaffbaaaaar"; sleep 1; \
   echo defaultcolor; sleep 1; echo "^#23dca1someothercolor"} | \
   dzen2 -p -bg black -l 8


There is a known off by one problem in menu mode with coloring otherwise
it should work ok.

Ideas and suggestions welcome.

Bye, Rob.