[Xmonad] Can I use xmobar with DynamicLog?

[David Roundy]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:48:45PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:31:09PM +0200, Andrea Rossato wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:14:04PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> > > I've just started to use xmobar.  It's cool.  But I still need dzen2 for
> > > the DynamicLog stuff.  Is there another way?
> > 
> > No, for the time being. I can easily write a plugin if you use a log
> > file, but reading a named pipe is almost impossible for xmobar.
> 
> Maybe DynamicLog could create a symlink whose target is the string to
> display.

What would be wrong with using a file?
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David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University