hi! I've just released xmobar-0.4, my XMonad status bar: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xmobar-0.4 XMobar is a minimalistic text only status bar. What's new: - many performance improvements on the monitors side; - added a (sort of) library for writing monitors; - every monitor takes a set of command-line options to set: * high and low thresholds, * high, normal and low colors * output template. Try for instance xmb-weather --help Example: [15:47:29]$ xmb-weather -t "<station> <tempF>, <rh>, (<hour>)" EGPF Glasgow Airport <fc=#FF0000>62.6</fc>, <fc=#FF0000>72.0</fc>, (13:20) For me xmobar is a good-enough replacement of the Ion3 status bar. I hope you'll enjoy it. Any suggestion, comments, critics are welcome. Know bugs: center alignment does produce weird (but nice) results. All the best, Andrea