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+{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}
+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module      :  Plugins.StdinReader
+-- Copyright   :  (c) Spencer Janssen
+-- License     :  BSD-style (see LICENSE)
+--
+-- Maintainer  :  Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen@gmail.com>
+-- Stability   :  unstable
+-- Portability :  unportable
+--
+-- A plugin to display information from _XMONAD_LOG, specified at
+-- http://code.haskell.org/XMonadContrib/XMonad/Hooks/DynamicLog.hs
+--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+module Plugins.XMonadLog (XMonadLog(..)) where
+
+import Control.Monad
+import Graphics.X11
+import Graphics.X11.Xlib.Extras
+import Plugins
+#ifdef UTF8
+#undef UTF8
+import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String as UTF8
+#define UTF8
+#endif
+import Foreign.C (CChar)
+import XUtil (nextEvent')
+
+
+data XMonadLog = XMonadLog
+    deriving (Read, Show)
+
+instance Exec XMonadLog where
+    start XMonadLog cb = do
+        d <- openDisplay ""
+        xlog <- internAtom d "_XMONAD_LOG" False
+
+        root  <- rootWindow d (defaultScreen d)
+        selectInput d root propertyChangeMask
+
+        let update = do
+                        mwp <- getWindowProperty8 d xlog root
+                        maybe (return ()) (cb . decodeCChar) mwp
+
+        update
+
+        allocaXEvent $ \ep -> forever $ do
+            nextEvent' d ep
+            e <- getEvent ep
+            case e of
+                PropertyEvent { ev_atom = a } | a ==  xlog -> update
+                _ -> return ()
+
+        return ()
+
+decodeCChar :: [CChar] -> String
+#ifdef UTF8
+#undef UTF8
+decodeCChar = UTF8.decode . map fromIntegral
+#define UTF8
+#else
+decodeCChar = map (toEnum . fromIntegral)
+#endif