[xmonad] Looking for "runOrKill" function

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Sepp Tannhuber <sepp.tannhuber at yahoo.de>
wrote:

> OK, I changed that into:
> scratchpads = [
>      NS "calendar" "urxvt -name calendar -e task calendar" (title =?
> "calendar")
>      (customFloating $ W.RationalRect 0 (1/10) (4/10) (3/10))
>  ]
>
> Now it compiles without an error. But when I type <Mod-d>,
> a window pops up and disappears. I changed the »task calendar«
> command into »htop«. Then a terminal with htop is opened. But
> it's not floated.
>

Yes. The problem is the program runs and immediately exits, so the terminal
exits. The xterm one uses -hold to make the terminal stick around after the
program exits, so you have a persistent calendar window.

It looks like urxvt also supports -hold, so add that after `-name calendar`.

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