[xmonad] Not running my startupHook on restart

[Brandon Allbery]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Adam Sjøgren <asjo at koldfront.dk> wrote:

> Jakob writes:
> > On 07.01.2016 12:44, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> >> Actually... I updated to 0.12 and at the same time switched from ghc
> >> 7.6.3 to 7.10.3, and found the same thing. I had to move the "args
> >> <-
> >> io getArgs" directly into "main" before invocation of the "xmonad"
> >> function.
>
> > That works! Thank you. Yeah it sounds like a GHC bug for me. I also
> > have xmonad 0.12 and GHC 7.10.3.
>
> I run xmonad 0.11.1 and ghc 7.10.3 (both on Debian sid), and it works
> for me (to have "as <- io getArgs" in my startupHook).
>

Turns out it is a code change.
https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/commit/307b82a53d519f5c86c009eb1a54044a616e4a5c

This isn't even mentioned in breaking changes at
https://wiki.haskell.org/Xmonad/Notable_changes_since_0.11
There's also documentation in various places that would need to be updated.

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