[xmonad] exiting: asking for confirmation (or a four-key combination)

[Ramon Diaz-Uriarte]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:33:17 -0500,wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wrote:
> Quoting wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu:

> > Quoting Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Meh, right problem, wrong specifics.  xmonad's main loop isn't running, so
> >> the problem manifests when another program opens a non-override_redirect
> >> window.
> >>
> >> - the program may block waiting on xmonad to respond to ConfigureRequest-s,
> >> while xmonad is blocked on its output;
> >>
> >> - a badly behaved program may map its window anyway, and you won't be able
> >> to do anything about it if it pops over the dmenu.
> >>
> >> (I am a little surprised *dmenu* doesn't trigger #1, which makes me think
> >> it's either using override_redirect or it's case #2.)

> After talking to Brandon on IRC, I can now summarize what this means  
> for you if you use the code I suggested (which spawns dmenu): xmonad  
> will not respond to X events until you respond to the dmenu prompt one  
> way or another. In particular, this means:

> 1. You can't change workspace, modify the input focus with the mouse, etc.
> 2. If a program tries to open a new window while the prompt is still  
> up, the appearance and handling of that new window will be delayed  
> (but, again, only until the dmenu prompt is dismissed).
> 3. The failure mode described in the putSelection bug (where xmonad  
> hard locks and must be killed outright) will *not* happen.

> I will update the XMonad.Util.Dmenu documentation shortly to reflect this.



Thanks for the update.  The two issues described do not seem a problem to
my intended usage.

R.



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