[xmonad] xmonad Digest, Vol 69, Issue 16

[Mario Pastorelli]

Yes, I just tried it right now and I think it is the same use case. I 
didn't know about it. The only difference with my module is that mine 
doesn't need Dzen but the Dzen module is more flexible and powerful. My 
patch is useless.

Mario

On 12/27/2012 12:00 PM, xmonad-request at haskell.org wrote:
> Quoting Mario Pastorelli <pastorelli.mario at gmail.com>:
>> >I wrote a patch for xmonad-contrib 0.10.1 to include an action to
>> >show some text in the centre of the screen. The patch is based on
>> >XMonad.Layout.ShowWName (thank you again Brandon Allbery) but it is
>> >an action and not a layout modifier. In this way it could be used to
>> >show some text when a key is pressed, for example. It includes an
>> >event handler to destroy the window after the timeout.
> Isn't this pretty much the exact use-case dzen was designed for? Just
> use spawn "dzen" manually, or, if you're into that kind of thing, try
> the module X.U.Dzen[1].
>
> ~d
>
> [1]
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmonad-contrib/0.10/doc/html/XMonad-Util-Dzen.html