Hi Brandon thank you for this, now I no longer get the error message upon starting xmonad. However, still nothing gets read by 'tail -f .xmonad-fifo'. Is there some other way to the dynamicLogXinerama information so that I can display it on an applet/appindicator? thanks! ~l ________________________________ From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> To: Lara Michaels <laramichaels1978@yahoo.com> Cc: "xmonad@haskell.org" <xmonad@haskell.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [xmonad] how to redirect dynamicLogXinerama output to a FIFO/named pipe? On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Lara Michaels <laramichaels1978@yahoo.com> wrote: , startupHook = hSetBuffering stdout LineBuffering *sigh* sorry, late night and I missed part of it. Also, you're using gnomeConfig, so it takes a little more: , startupHook = (io $ hSetBuffering stdout LineBuffering) <+> startupHook gnomeConfig -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms