[xmonad] Can't get Urgency Hook to work

[Jeremy O'Brien]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 02:13:09AM +0000, Henri Ducrocq wrote:
> Here is the relevant bit from my xmonad.hs:
> 
> main = xmonad
>         $ withUrgencyHook dzenUrgencyHook
>         $ gnomeConfig
> 
> When I echo a bell character from xterm, the corresponding button in my
> "task bar" flashes, however nothing else happens. dzen2 seems to be working
> ok, and I see nothing in .xsession-errors.
> I read all of the doc for UrgencyHook, played with SpawnUrgencyHook as well,
> I can't see what I'm doing wrong...
> 
> Could it be that the task bar catches the event and prevents it from being
> dispatched to xmonad?
> Or what?

When you echo the bell, are you making sure that you are not on the same
workspace as the terminal you are belling from? To test, do a

sleep 2; echo -e '\a'

,then immediately switch workspaces. Does it work then?

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