[xmonad] getting a string from a user

[Adam Vogt]

dmenu should work. Using System.Process you can get the stdout of dmenu 
(which will contain what the user typed in or the option they selected) 
when run as such:

> echo "option1\noption2" | dmenu -p Input:

You should also consider using XMonad.Prompt, which should allow an 
arbitrary string input optionally with completion. There are many uses of 
it under the XMonad.Prompt. namespace in xmonad contrib.

* On Thursday, February 19 2009, lowly coder wrote:

>I need to get a string from the user + do funky things with it.
>
>This is like inverse of spawn "xmessage ... "
>
>Dmenu does not "work" because I don't want to immediately run the program --
>I need xmonad to get the string + do things with it + control how the
>program is started.
>
>How can I do this?
>
>Thanks!

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