[xmonad] bringing xmonad into the threaded world

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Don Stewart <dons00 at gmail.com> wrote:

> xmonad isn't threaded because the X server doesn't allow concurrent access
> -- it will crash.


Modern libX11 has thread "support" (it wraps every API call in a mutex) if
so compiled and you make the appropriate call to tell it to do the
wrapping; that's part of what the proposed patch did.  It's not very smart
and slows things down a lot; most people prefer to pretend it's still not
threaded as a result.

XCB has slightly better thread support.

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