xmobar with utf8 support
Hi, today I pushed a few patches to add utf8 support to xmobar. I don't think I'm going to add full locale support, since utf8 seems to be fine for a minimalistic status bar (moreover, locale support requires iconv). I just need to write a battery plugin with the possibility of setting the filepath where to retrieve battery information and then I'll make the 0.9 release. So, if you want to give it a try and find a bug, or have some other features you would like to see implemented before 0.9, speak now, or forever...whatever. Cheers, Andrea
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:12:12PM +0100, Andrea Rossato wrote:
Hi,
today I pushed a few patches to add utf8 support to xmobar. I don't think I'm going to add full locale support, since utf8 seems to be fine for a minimalistic status bar (moreover, locale support requires iconv).
I just need to write a battery plugin with the possibility of setting the filepath where to retrieve battery information and then I'll make the 0.9 release. So, if you want to give it a try and find a bug, or have some other features you would like to see implemented before 0.9, speak now, or forever...whatever.
Cheers, Andrea
Along the lines of the ongoing discussion on making DynamicLog easier to set up, have you considered adding StdinReader to xmobar's default config? It would be really cool to add an 'xmobar' combinator, similar to the current 'dzen' function. The idea is that we can make it really easy for the user to set up a nice status bar with clock, xmonad info, etc. If we make this change for the next version of xmobar, I think we can start recommending xmobar over dzen because it constitutes a solution that works out of the box. Target xmonad.hs:
import XMonad import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
main = xmobar xmonad
(or something like this) No shell scripting required! Cheers, Spencer Janssen
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:47:25PM -0600, Spencer Janssen wrote:
Along the lines of the ongoing discussion on making DynamicLog easier to set up, have you considered adding StdinReader to xmobar's default config? It would be really cool to add an 'xmobar' combinator, similar to the current 'dzen' function. The idea is that we can make it really easy for the user to set up a nice status bar with clock, xmonad info, etc. If we make this change for the next version of xmobar, I think we can start recommending xmobar over dzen because it constitutes a solution that works out of the box.
regardless the recommendation - dzen is very useful for many users too, I think I'll implement you suggestions. I hope I'll be able to make a 0.9 release together with the 0.7 xmonad release. Cheers, Andrea ps: I do not intent to sound demanding, but I really need your help/suggestion/directions for the issue #111 stuff. Please let me know, when you find the time.
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