On Wed, Nov 16 2011, Marco Guidetti wrote: [...]
I have seen that in XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog (xmobar) there is a way to do this (even if I still don't fully comprehend how to use it for the DynamicLog, for example). It's not clear to me how to use for multiple xmobar instances (as in my case).
I run two xmobar instances launched from outside xmobar, using dynamic logs. In my xmonad.hs i have: , logHook = dynamicLogString xmobarCfg >>= xmonadPropLog where xmobarCfg = defaultPP { ppSep = " " , ppCurrent = xmobarColor defHilite "" , ppTitle = xmobarTitle , ppLayout = ppLayoutName , ppHidden = transNSP } where xmobarTitle = xmobarColor defFg "" . shorten 50 ppLayoutName x = case x of "Tall" -> "·:" "ThreeCol" -> "·::" "Full" -> "·" "Grid" -> "::" _ -> x and one of my xmobar instances has in its Commands: , Run XMonadLog and XMonadLog in the template. All that is left is a shell script invoking the two xmobar instances, after killing any running one (for easy restart): #!/bin/bash cfg0=${1:-"$HOME/etc/xmobar/xmobar-bottom"} cfg1=${4:-"$HOME/etc/xmobar/xmobar-top"} pidof xmobar && killall xmobar xmobar $cfg0 & xmobar $cfg1 & I call this script in my .xinitrc, and every time i one to restart my xmobars; restarting xmonad doesn't affect them. HTH, jao -- If at first you don't succeed, try and try and try again. And then give up. There's no point making a damn fool out of yourself. -Dilbert's Rules of Work, slightly paraphrased