Now that spawn assumes executeFile takes a String containing utf8 codepoints
(and takes an actual String as input) adjust Prompt.Shell to avoid double
encoding. U.Run functions are updated to be consistent with spawn.
See <http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=441>
> I have run into programs that fail when run by safeSpawn but succeed with spawn.
> I tracked it down in one (python) and it seems to be due to uninstallSignalHandlers.
> When run by safeSpawn, the program reports errors from wait.
dylan did not supply a patch and his version doesn't match the declared type signature;
since I don't want to break every `safeSpawn` user, I tossed a `>> return ()` in to make
the type right, although I'm troubled at removing the exception functions.
This should not cause any working configs to stop working, because IO is an instance of MonadIO, and because complete configs will pin down the type of the call to IO. Note that XMonad.Config.Arossato is not a complete config, and so it needed some tweaks; with a main function, this should not be a problem.
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=268
Submitting with some trepidation, since I've nearly no
understanding of process handling. Should be ok, no
warnings by sjanssen when asking about it in hpaste or
earlier email, and tested locally by spawning excessive
numbers of dzens: did not leave zombies or raise exceptions.
This module too was causing horizontal scrolling because of the shell command. I managed to discover that you only need to specify 'png:' *or* "foo.png", not both, which trimmed off enough characters.
Also, I improved the docs for my functions.
It turns out that for urxvt, and most terminal, apparently, once you give a '-e' option, that's it.
They will not interpret anything after that as anything but input for /bin/sh, so if you wanted to go 'runInTerm "'screen -r session' -title IRC"',
you were SOL - the -title would not be seen by urxvt. This, needless to say, is bad, since then you can't do stuff like set the title which means
various hooks and extensions are helpless. This patch adds an extra options argument which is inserted *before* the -e. If you want the old behaivour,
you can just go 'runInTerm "" "executable"', but now if you need to do something extra, 'runInTerm "-title mutt" "mutt"' works fine.
This patch also updates callers.
