Hi, i just played a bit with xmonad and added 2 new actions to dzen2 to be better suitable as a statusbar. * Example 1: Custom statusbar Add the following to your .xinitrc just before xmonad is being called: dwm-status.sh | dzen2 -p -e 'sigusr1=raise;sigusr2=lower;onquit=exec:rm /tmp/dzen2-pid;button3=exit' & echo $! > /tmp/dzen2-pid Add 2 keybindings to Config.hs: , ((modMask, xK_s ), spawn "kill -10 `cat /tmp/dzen2-pid`") , ((modMask, xK_t ), spawn "kill -12 `cat /tmp/dzen2-pid`") dwm-status.sh can be found here (zsh script!): http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dwm-status.sh mod-s raises the statusbar to view mod-t lowers it (hides it behind the other windows) * Example 2: xmonad debugging output .xinitrc: xmonad 2>&1 | dzen2 -p -e 'sigusr1=raise;sigusr2=lower;onquit=exec:rm /tmp/dzen2-pid;button3=exit' & echo $! > /tmp/dzen2-pid while :; do sleep 3600; done Add the same key bindings as described above. You could use then '-l <n>' feature to keep a log of the debugging output and scroll through it, too. This is a really hackish approach but good enough for debugging purposes as i think :). IMPORTANT: For all this to work you'll need the latest svn version of dzen2! Get it with: svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Have fun, Rob