[xmonad] darcs patch: Support for spawning processes on a specific workspace

Khudyakov Alexey alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com
Mon Jan 26 05:30:13 EST 2009


On Sunday 25 January 2009 23:35:34 Daniel Schoepe wrote:
> Yes, but only if they are launched in a way that gives xmonad access to
> the pid. The Prompt module could be adapted to return the pid of the
> spawned process(but I guess that could cause problems with expressions
> like "foo; bar"), but I don't think it would be possible when using
> external launchers like dmenu.
>
It possible to do such thing with dmenu althrough tricky. Dmenu doesn't launch 
anything by itself only return name of executable. All is needed is to read 
dmenu's stdout and launch program.


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