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+{-# OPTIONS -fglasgow-exts #-}
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- |
+-- Module : xmonad-status.hs
+-- Copyright : (c) Don Stewart 2007
+-- License : BSD3-style
+-- Maintainer : dons@cse.unsw.edu.au
+--
+-- An external statusbar-client for xmonad.
+--
+-- Prints the workspaces in a simple form, read from the logging output
+-- of xmonad.
+--
+-- An example use:
+--
+--
+-- #!/bin/sh
+-- #
+-- # launch xmonad, with a couple of dzens to run the status bar
+-- # send xmonad state over a named pipe
+-- #
+-- FG='#a8a3f7'
+-- BG='#3f3c6d'
+-- FONT="-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1"
+--
+-- PATH=/home/dons/bin:$PATH
+--
+-- # clean up and old status bar pipe
+-- rm -f ~/.xmonad.pipe
+--
+-- # create a new one
+-- /sbin/mkfifo -m 600 ~/.xmonad.pipe
+--
+-- xmonad-status < ~/.xmonad.pipe | dzen2 -ta l -fg $FG -bg $BG -fn $FONT &
+-- exec xmonad > ~/.xmonad.pipe
+--
+-- Creates a workspace table on the left side of the screen.
+--
+-- A version that perfectly emulates wmii or dwm could be distributed.
+--
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+import Data.List
+import StackSet
+import XMonad
+import System.IO
+import Text.PrettyPrint
+import Graphics.X11.Types (Window)
+
+--
+-- parse the StackSet output, and print it in the form:
+--
+-- *[1] 2 *3 *4 5 6 7 8
+--
+-- It's an example of how to write a Haskell script to hack
+-- the structure defined in StackSet.hs
+--
+
+main = forever $ getLine >>= readIO >>= draw
+ where
+ forever a = a >> forever a
+
+--
+-- All the magic is in the 'ppr' instances, below.
+--
+draw :: WindowSet -> IO ()
+draw s = do putStrLn . render . ppr $ s
+ hFlush stdout
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+--
+-- A simple recursive descent pretty printer for the StackSet type.
+--
+class Pretty a where
+ ppr :: a -> Doc
+
+--
+-- And instances for the StackSet layers
+--
+instance Pretty WindowSet where
+ ppr (StackSet { current = cws -- the different workspaces
+ , visible = vws
+ , hidden = hws }) = ppr (sortBy tags workspaces)
+ where
+ -- tag each workspace with its flavour
+ workspaces = C (workspace cws) : map (V . workspace) vws ++ map H hws
+
+ -- sort them by their tags
+ tags a b = (tag.unWrap) a `compare` (tag.unWrap) b
+
+--
+-- How to print each workspace kind
+--
+instance Pretty TaggedW where
+ ppr (C w) = brackets (int (1 + fromIntegral (tag w))) -- [1]
+ ppr (V w) = parens (ppr w) -- <2>
+ ppr (H w) = char ' ' <> ppr w <> char ' ' -- 3
+
+-- tags are printed as integers (or map them to strings)
+instance Pretty W where
+-- Just print int tags:
+ ppr (Workspace i s) =
+ case s of
+ Empty -> empty
+ _ -> int (1 + fromIntegral i)
+
+instance Pretty a => Pretty [a] where
+ ppr [] = empty
+ ppr (x:xs) = ppr x <> ppr xs
+
+
+-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Some type information for the pretty printer
+
+-- We have a fixed workspace type
+type W = Workspace WorkspaceId Window
+
+-- Introduce a newtype to distinguish different workspace flavours
+data TaggedW = C W -- current
+ | V W -- visible
+ | H W -- hidden
+
+-- And the ability to unwrap tagged workspaces
+unWrap :: TaggedW -> W
+unWrap (C w) = w
+unWrap (V w) = w
+unWrap (H w) = w