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List:       xmonad
Subject:    Re: [xmonad] New module for xmonad-contrib: SpawnNamedPipe
From:       Daniel Wagner <daniel () wagner-home ! com>
Date:       2014-02-05 20:33:51
Message-ID: ddfef243efc182e8b3faa84213f7e39d () seas ! upenn ! edu
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Thanks for the patch! Looks pretty good to me, so if there continue to 
be no complaints about this patch for another day or two, I'll push it.
~d

On 2014-02-02 16:42, Christian Wills wrote:
> Hello Xmonad devs,
> 
> Attached is a simple module that allows you to spawn a pipe and store
> it in the xmonad state as a String, Handle pair so that it can be
> accessed from a different hook from where the pipe was initially
> created.
> 
> The initial motivation for this was I wanted to be able to spawn dzen
> from inside the startupHook and write to the pipe from inside the
> logHook. I didn't like being forced to start the dzen pipe up in a
> global namespace so that I could access it from the logHook. This
> example is detailed in the Haddocks but there are many other use
> cases.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris Wills
> 
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