[xmonad] How to trigger Xmonad.Prompt.AddFile on recurrent times?

[Platon Pronko]

Hi!

I'm not an expert, but it seems that forking a thread inside XMonad itself wouldn't work - there is no function that will allow you to convert X () back to IO (), thus you can't use the usual forkIO calls.

You can probably implement something via X events and server-mode hooks: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.16/docs/XMonad-Hooks-ServerMode.html

But may I suggest using a much simpler approach and skipping XMonad entirely? You can use for example `yad` or `zenity` to display a graphical input box directly from a script. For example something like the following:

$ yad --text="Current activity:" --entry >> activity-log.txt

Best regards,
Platon Pronko

On 2020-04-22 18:05, Alejandro Garcia wrote:
> Hello In order to help with my personal productivity.
> I want to register what I'm doing every 15 minutes or so.
> 
> And using Xmonad.Prompt.AddFile is very easy.
> Currently I launch it with a key combination and I can start writing
> what I'm doing in this moment.
> 
> However, no I would like to automatically launch AddFile every 15 minutes...
> Ideally from cron (which I know)
> or maybe xmonad has a way to do it itself?
> 
> 
>