> OK, I see the need for signalling, i.e. just to tell the application that
> some data may have changed. But this does IMHO not imply IPC. A simple
> signal should be OK.
Signals are asynchronous. Asynchronicity is generally deeply evil and
produces a lot of weird hard to debug code. If you use an X property then
you get an X11 happening as part of your main event loop. As Jim Gettys will
be happy to tell you X11 properties are wonderous things 8)
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