That is what I am looking for but I just can seem to figure out how to configure it to work. Like what do I need to add and where. Best Regards Christian

On Feb 2, 2016, at 10:53 PM, Peter Jones wrote:

Christian Solje writes:

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I am trying to get my 3 monitor setup to work with independent screens, I am also trying to have the xmobar to show on every screen that I got. How should I go about getting it to work?

What do you mean by "independent screens"? Are you talking about XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens or your physical monitors?

As long as the X11 Haskell module was compiled with Xinerama support then multiple monitor support works out of the box. The default behavior is to allow each monitor to display a workspace independent of what the other monitors are displaying.

XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens allows you to change that behavior to match that of dwm's.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib-0.12/docs/XMonad-Layout-I...

As for three copies of xmobar, I believe you just need three configuration files specifying where each bar should be displayed and then start three copies.

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On Wed, 03 Feb, 2016 at 02:51:02 GMT, Dmitri Iouchtchenko wrote:

On 02/02/2016, Christian Solje wrote:

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I am also trying to have the xmobar to show on every screen that I got.

You could do this with X.H.DynamicBars (http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-DynamicBars.html). I can't find any examples for how to use it, but you can refer to my configuration (the relevant commit is https://github.com/0/.../commit/1bc32215ae60edd961f0304bd6aea8fbe9a43658). I'm not certain that I'm using it correctly, since my barDestroyer doesn't "tear down previous instances" like the docs say it should,

This is so that old instances of the bars don't stack up over time.

but it still works fine for me. I suspect it's because xmobar exits automatically when its handle is closed.

Yeah, this is fine. Here is how I do it (I authored DynamicBars): https://paste.fedoraproject.org/317789/54474221/ I also use 3 monitors at work, so the setup is: - xmonad talks to xmonadpropwrite which writes a property to the root window with the xmonad part of the bar (per monitor); - xmonad also starts and stops xmobar@.service instances in my systemd --user session (one service per monitor, specified like xmobar@0.service for monitor 0); - when xmonad restarts, xmobar doesn't notice (this was done because 3 xmobar instances was flaky and all of them wouldn't always start, so I made them able to be started independently of xmonad); and - xmobar is started with the -C argument to give an extra command which indicates the property to read from the root window. --Ben