<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Lara Michaels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:laramichaels1978@yahoo.com" target="_blank">laramichaels1978@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><span style="font-size:12pt">but to my surprise running 'tail -f /tmp/xmonad-fifo' shows no
output, while if I simply start xmonad in a terminal I can see it
printing information about the workspaces being used to the terminal:</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At a guess, you've just demonstrated that nobody has been using dynamicLogXinerama. It isn't flushing its output, and I can't find anywhere where xmonad sets its stdout to unbuffered or line buffered output. Output to a terminal is automatically line buffered, so in that case it works as expected; block buffering means it'd only get flushed to the FIFO every 4Kbytes or so.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You could try importing System.IO and adding</div><div><br></div><div> hSetBuffering stdout LineBuffering</div><div><br></div><div>to the startupHook.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br>brandon s allbery <a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a><br>
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