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+-- Copyright Spencer Janssen <spencerjanssen@gmail.com>
+-- BSD3 (see LICENSE)
+-- 
+-- Experimental, will add proper documentation later (famous last words)
+
+import Control.Monad
+import Graphics.X11
+import Graphics.X11.Xlib.Extras
+import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String as UTF8
+import Foreign.C (CChar)
+
+main = do
+    d <- openDisplay ""
+    xlog <- internAtom d "_XMONAD_LOG" False
+
+    root  <- rootWindow d (defaultScreen d)
+    selectInput d root propertyChangeMask
+
+    allocaXEvent $ \ep -> forever $ do
+        nextEvent d ep
+        e <- getEvent ep
+        case e of
+            PropertyEvent { ev_atom = a } | a ==  xlog -> do
+                mwp <- getWindowProperty8 d xlog root
+                maybe (return ()) (putStrLn . decodeCChar) mwp
+            _ -> return ()
+
+    return ()
+
+decodeCChar :: [CChar] -> String
+decodeCChar = UTF8.decode . map fromIntegral