[xmonad] servermode patch for xmonad-contrib

[Peter Olson]

Yeah, I agree with you. I started thinking about that after submitting 
the patch. I was modeling it after the version that was already there 
(which wasn't that great, hence why I rewrote it).

At the very least, I intend to have the "sendCommand" function, and 
maybe the "sendAll" function in the main module, instead of in the 
comments, which would allow any Haskell application to very easily talk 
to xmonad.

I think that option #1 is a good idea. How would that work, since it 
would require the same binary to either start the window manager or send 
the command to the running instance of xmonad. I'm guessing that looking 
at the code for xmonad --restart and xmonad --recompile would help with 
this?

I'm not really sure what option 2 entails, since I am not very familiar 
with ghc/cabal.

Thanks for the advice,
Peter

On 12/19/2013 12:24 PM, adam vogt wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I applied your patch.
>
> Having substantial code in the comments is not very convenient, since
> then people have to copy-paste to run it even if there is no
> customization. But that's how it was before you make changes.
> Furthermore there's no guarantee that it can compile. There are a
> couple options I think are better than the current situation:
>
> 1. have a (xmonadServerMode :: XConfig layout -> IO ()) which picks up
> on environment variables, so I think you could then send commands
> like:
>
>    xmonad DO_SOMETHING=parameter
>
> 2. export a XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode.main, which is the same as the example code:
>
>    runghc -e XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode.main -a ...
>
> 3. something else
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Peter Olson <polson2 at hawk.iit.edu> wrote:
>> Some stuff that I have been working on to generalize XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode
>> so that it will be more useful. This is my first time contributing to an
>> open-source project, so sorry if I made any obvious mistakes.
>>
>> Peter Olson
>>
>>
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