[xmonad] Message passing between instances

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Chris Bell <cwbell at mail.usf.edu> wrote:

> Is there a builtin way to pass messages between Xmonad instances? So that,
> when I exit on the primary, it sends an 'exit' command to the secondaries,
> which then clean up and close. Preferably, I would like to extend this to
> synchronize xscreensaver activation, but that's not a major concern.
>

XMonad.Hooks.ServerMode is a proof-of-concept that needs some work to be
practical (IIRC it can rearrange some commands if you add workspaces
dynamically, and has other problems).

xscreensaver has a remote-control protocol of sorts already; see
xscreensaver-command.

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