Re: [xmonad] updating.... in xmobar

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Jacob Alexandersson wrote:

Hey all,

I just started trying xmonad out, and I really ilke it. I've used ratpoison in the past but eventually gave it up. xmonad seems to work better for me so far.

I realize this is a xmobar question, but I am guessing there are people on this list that uses xmobar also.

I have a .xmobarrc which looks like follows:

<snip>

Config { font = "-*-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , position = TopW L 100 , lowerOnStart = True , commands = [ Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Date "%a %b %_d %l:%M" "date" 10 , Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "blaj" 36000 , Run StdinReader ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%StdinReader% }{ %blaj% %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% %date%</fc>" }

</snip>

...and in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs I have:

<snip> ... xmproc <- spawnPipe "/usr/bin/xmobar /home/jcx/.xmobarrc" ... </snip>

All I get is "updating..." where %StdinReader% is placed. Is this correct?? Am I missing something?

you've got the end of the pipe in xmproc, you just need to feed it some data with something like: myLogHook dest = dynamicLogWithPP defaultPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn dest ,ppVisible = wrap "(" ")" } xmonad $ defaultConfig { ... , logHook = myLogHook xmproc } hope this helps A