[xmonad] Compiling xmobar or taffybar into xmonad

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs at mega-nerd.com>wrote:

> I'm curious if anybody has compiled xmobar or taffybar into their actual
> actual xmonad. Is this a crazy idea?
>

It's a very bad idea without rearchitecting xmonad's main loop to allow it
to support anything other than X11 events. In particular, you really want
timed events for a status bar, and at present the only way to get that
while maintaining access to xmonad's internal state is to have a separate
thread periodically sendMessage X11 events to the main thread.

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