Hy, I tried to switch from dzen2 to xmobar as statusbar for my xmonad but ran into these three problems: 1. I want my Mailcount (how many new mails are there in my Maildir on my harddisk) to be displayed. How can I achieve this? Should I run a external program? Im searching for a solution which needs the less cpu (and io) as possible, as xmonad is running on my notebook. An external shellscript would do a big overhead, so is there a better solution? 2. I wanted to draw a progressbar (oder a rectangle) for the battery-status and the volume. How can this be done? 3. Is there a posilibity to draw icons like dzen2? I just wanted a green envelope for "no new mails" and a red one for "new mails". Is this posible? I know this might not be the right place to ask the question, but perhaps someone can help me. Thanks -- Dominik Bruhn mailto: dominik@dbruhn.de