On 04/28/10 at 08:57am, Kettmann, David H wrote:
Hello all, I hope this is the right list, as I am not able to find much on my issue.
I am running XMonad and I love it! I am using dzen2 for my status bar and it works just fine. I also have another dzen2 bar setup that runs conky and it does not update. My clock is static at whenever my X session starts and my cpu, memory, and disk stats do not change. I'm not sure if this is a problem with XMonad, dzen2, or conky, but I've run out of places to look. Here is the relevant portion of my xmonad.hs file. If more is needed, let me know and I can paste it.
main = do -- Config starts dzen <- spawnPipe myStatusBar conkytop <- spawnPipe myTopBar conkympd <- spawnPipe myMPDBar checkTopicConfig myTopics myTopicConfig xmonad $ myUrgencyHook $ defaultConfig { terminal = myTerminal , normalBorderColor = myInactiveBorderColor , focusedBorderColor = myActiveBorderColor , workspaces = myTopics , modMask = myModMask , keys = myKeys , manageHook = myManageHook <+> manageDocks <+> manageHook defaultConfig , layoutHook = avoidStruts $ myLayoutHook , logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ myDzenPP dzen }
myStatusBar = "dzen2 -p -x '0' -y '0' -h '16' -w '1100' -ta 'l' -fg '" ++ myNormalFGColor ++ "' -bg '" ++ myNormalBGColor ++ "' -fn '" ++ myFont ++ "'" myTopBar = "conky -c .conkytop | dzen2 -x '1100' -y '0' -h '16' -w '340' -ta 'r' -fg '" ++ myNormalFGColor ++ "' -bg '" ++ myNormalBGColor ++ "' -fn '" ++ myFont ++ "'" myMPDBar = "conky -c .conkympd | dzen2 -x '1441' -y '0' -h '16' -w '1280' -ta 'l' -fg '" ++ myNormalFGColor ++ "' -bg '" ++ myNormalBGColor ++ "' -fn '" ++ myFont ++ "'"
First, let me say I'm not extremely experienced with haskell/XMonad but I do have a similar setup as you [1]. As I understand it, spawnPipe is to be used only when dzen or xmobar are to be fed by XMonad itself (via a handle from myLogHook). In the case of conky feeding dzen, that's just a standalone app that can be launched via spawn. 1: here are the relevant part of my xmonad.hs; context can be found at http://pbrisbin.com:8080/dotfiles/xmonad_xmonad.hs main = do d <- spawnPipe myLeftBar -- spawn the left statusbar spawn myRightBar -- spawn the right statusbar spawn "conky" -- spawn a standard conky -- and finally, start xmonad xmonad $ withUrgencyHook myUrgencyHook $ defaultConfig { terminal = myTerminal , workspaces = myWorkspaces , borderWidth = myBorderWidth , normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor -- snip -- essentially, just "conky -c file | dzen2 -options" myRightBar = "conky -c " ++ conkyFile ++ " | " ++ makeDzen leftBarWidth 0 (monitorWidth - leftBarWidth) barHeight "r" Hope it helps, Pat -- patrick brisbin