Hi, On Fri, Feb 11 2011, Tony Morris wrote:
Hello, I am trying to run a script to check gmail as described here (with some errors) https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmobar#Gmail_integration
When I set the template to %mail% and restart xmobar, the bar refuses to display. If I set the script to a non-existent file, I see xmobar with a message "Could not execute command", so I know it's all configured fine, but for the script that checks gmail. If I run that script manually, I see a single integer value on standard output.
I can't seem to find any place that xmobar is logging to help identify what is causing the error (xmobar refusing to display when asked to Run Com my script.
It works for me, with xmobar 0.12 (i haven't tried an earlier version). Using "mail" as the alias can give problems if you've compiled the Mail plugin: one thing to try is to change that to, say, "gmail". Also, make sure that the refresh time has a reasonable value (e.g., 3000 for checking every five minutes). This is the config line i'm using: , Run Com "sh" ["/home/jao/tmp/gmail.sh"] "gmail" 3000 xmobar logs to either the bar itself or stdout: just run 'xmobar /path/to/config' in a terminal window to see if there's any additional error message. HTH, jao -- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying" -- Woody Allen