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@@ -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