[xmonad] Compiling xmobar or taffybar into xmonad

[Troels Henriksen]

Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+hs at mega-nerd.com> writes:

> Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Oh wow, I wasn't going to do anything clever, I was just going to forkIO
> what would normally have been the main function of taffybar.
>
> Taffybar already runs happily in its own process without access to xmonad's
> internal state, so all it would be doing is using the exising communication
> protocols and sharing the RTS.

Xlib wasn't reentrant last time I checked, so you'll end up with tons of
race conditions.

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