[Xmonad] Can I use xmobar with DynamicLog?

[Andrea Rossato]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:30:54PM +0100, Andy Gimblett wrote:
> Andrea, Why can xmobar read from a file but not a named pipe?

To read a named pipe you must wait for output. 

The problem is that xombar waits for XEvents and a timer. 

To make things even more complicated there is the problem of threads
and foreign blocks. If a foreign call is blocking, then all other
Haskell thread will be blocked.

To avoid that you can use operating system threads. But this means a
30% memory consumption increase. Which is a lot for a status bar.

The author of the miracle of a non foreign block for waiting XEvents
is Spencer, btw.

In any case as far as I remember waiting for a pipe is a foreign call,
and I don't want to switch to operating system threads. Not after all
the noise I made to have a non blocking nextEvent...

I'm open to discussion though.

Cheers,

Andrea