On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:43, 1126 <mailinglists@elfsechsundzwanzig.de> wrote:
On Fri, 16. Mar 09:02, Brandon Allbery wrote: 
> You're spawning the bottom one with spawnPipe, which is wasteful and not
> entirely effective (if your intent was to have the bottom bar go away when
> xmonad is restarted like the top one does, it won't work; the bar has to
> actually use a StdinReader or it won't notice).

Yeah, that's right. So what's the more appropiate way to run two xmobar-instances?

Typically standalone ones are run independently of xmonad since there's no reason to respawn them on cmd-q (unlike the ones being fed from DynamicLog, like your top xmobar, which *must* be respawned every time xmonad is restarted).

> Doesn't appear to be an xmonad problem; you didn't provide your .xmobarrc
> files, so can't tell from there.  It might also be a bug in xmobar, 

Still doesn't appear to be anything wrong.  Are you sure you're not seeing the space (typically 1-2px) left for descenders in the font?  Perhaps a screenshot would help.

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