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| author | Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz> | 2022-02-20 19:56:21 +0000 |
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| committer | Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz> | 2022-02-20 19:57:31 +0000 |
| commit | efa9e4c541695e725d39da001592c9613acc4cae (patch) | |
| tree | 634bca3d5abc87b419289bf665eede10a082608e | |
| parent | 7cca823651a4a33e0c99d4062a382704f7904572 (diff) | |
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Documentation: Note the need for threaded RTS with QueueReader & xmonad
Related: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/571
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diff --git a/doc/window-managers.org b/doc/window-managers.org index 5c5b083..e45784c 100644 --- a/doc/window-managers.org +++ b/doc/window-managers.org @@ -210,6 +210,15 @@ choice. logWorkspacesToQueue q = dynamicLogWithPP def { ppOutput = STM.atomically . STM.writeTQueue q } #+end_src + + Note that xmonad uses blocking Xlib calls in its event loop and isn't + normally compiled with + [[https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/using-concurrent.html][the threaded RTS]] + so an xmobar thread running inside xmonad will suffer from delayed + updates. It is thus necessary to enable =-threaded= when compiling + xmonad configuration (=xmonad.hs=), e.g. by using a custom + =~/.xmonad/build= script. + *** Example for using the DBus IPC interface with XMonad Bind the key which should {,un}map xmobar to a dummy value. This is |