bug: icon endless read

Artur Zimmer artur128 at 3dzimmer.de
Thu Jun 6 12:57:57 BST 2013


> >> An alternative to address the specific window title problem could also
> >> be providing a CurrentWindowTitle plugin.
> >
> > not so good idea
> 
> care to explain why do you think so? on the user side, it'd be a
> solution needing less changes to their setup, and usable out of the box
> in any window manager.  what are the downsides you see?


for the window-manager it must be possible to change the color/icon/action in xmobar ...
but text that came from other "apps" like window-title must be escaped by the window-manager, he is the only one who knows the active window

The only pipe i know, between window-manager and xmobar, is the Stdin.

So how do you wanne split CurrentWindowTitle and WindowManagerInformations(like active window-page) via Stdin?


bye,
Artur



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