[Xmonad] Can I use xmobar with DynamicLog?

[David Roundy]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:55:24PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 02:50:46PM -0700, David Roundy wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> It would grow.

Unless you did the same thing to the file that you'd do with the symlink:
truncate and overwrite it.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University