Hi everyone!<br><br>Just a quick description of a patch I just pushed to the xmonad-contrib darcs repo. First, I cleaned up DynamicLog and added a bunch of documentation and examples -- getting a working status bar seems like one of the more difficult aspects of a typical xmonad setup, so hopefully this will go some ways towards fixing that. <br>
<br>In another step to make setting up a useful status bar easier, I also added a new field to the PP record, ppExtras.&nbsp; This is a list of &#39;loggers&#39;, i.e. (X (Maybe String)) actions, which will be run each time the status is generated, and their output added to the normal window title + layout + workspace information.&nbsp; As an example of the sorts of things you can put there, and as a repository for useful loggers that people might create, I also added a new module, XMonad.Util.Loggers.&nbsp; The upshot of all this is that I used to have a separate script to get the time and date, battery information, and load averages, into which I would pipe the output of xmonad, and then pipe the output of that script into dzen.&nbsp; Now, I no longer have a separate script, I can just throw a few loggers in the ppExtras field of my PP format, and hey presto!&nbsp; Simpler, easier to maintain, and easier for newcomers to figure out.<br>
<br>If you find the new ppExtras feature useful, I hope you&#39;ll create some new Loggers and put them in the Loggers module.&nbsp; And feel free to improve upon/generalize the ones that are already there.&nbsp; Ideally there should be a wide array of useful, configurable loggers that new users can choose from when constructing their preferred status bar.<br>
<br>happy xmonading,<br>-Brent<br>