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[Ernesto Rodriguez]

Sounds like an interesting Sunday project :) Thank you for the advice!

On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:31 PM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Ernesto Rodriguez <neto at netowork.me>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh well, thank you for the reply :) I am trying to do some networking
>> stuff in the X Monad. Do you think there is some workaround such that I do
>> the networking in an additional thread and then when it is done I fire some
>> X11 event that XMonad can be programed to handle and then it can read the
>> data recovered from the network and display it?
>
>
> That would be the ClientMessage I mentioned. You would have your thread
> openDisplay for itself, do whatever, and then use sendMessage to send a
> ClientMessage event to the main thread; you then use handleEventHook to
> catch that event.
>
>
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-- 
Ernesto Rodriguez

Masters Student
Computer Science
Utrecht University

www.netowork.me
github.com/netogallo
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