Hi, On Fri, Apr 08 2022 10:56, Michael Needham wrote:
I don't quite get why it is not working, but in xmobarrc I am using ", RUN StdinReader" (and have tried the UnsafeStdinReader variation as well) and this causes xmobar not to run at startup again. If I start xmobar from the terminal it runs and does not error. in my xmobar.hs it is called via xproc inside my main do block.
You are calling spawnPipe in you startup hook > myStartupHook :: X () > myStartupHook = do > xproc <- spawnPipe ("xmobar -x 0") > […] but you never do anything with that pipe; e.g., normally you would feed information about the workspaces to xmobar. Note that, in particular, this
in my xmobar.hs it is called via xproc inside my main do block.
is not quite right. xproc is simply a name you give to the handle returned by spawnPipe. Whether you want to use pipes or not, I would suggest going through the tutorial[1] to learn how to correctly set up xmobar. It also tells you a little bit about Haskell, which may be useful when you have to debug something again in the future. Tony [1]: https://xmonad.org/TUTORIAL.html