On 19/01/2008, Ricardo Martins wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:59:26 +0000 "David Chanters" wrote:

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Yet when chatting via pidgin, which would send such an urgency hook, xmonad doesnt react to it.

I had the same problem. I eventually figured I should check the default plugins and there was one which controlled the urgent events: Message Notification. There's a checkbox for sending urgent events to the wm. After checking that, everything was fine.

Ok - i did this and restarted pidgin, and still nothing. Where would the dzen bar appear? i have other dzen instances running just fine. if it matters, here's the relevant lines from my config: statusBarCmd= "dzen2 -bg '#2c2c32' -fg 'grey70' -w 370 -x 0 -ta l -p -e ''" main = do din <- spawnPipe statusBarCmd xmonad $ withUrgencyHook dzenUrgencyHook { args = ["-bg", "purple", "-fg", "white", "-xs", "-1"] } $ sConfig d Certainly I see nothing on screen 1 --- should I? And for how long, and where? I don't even know what I am supposed to be seeing. :) David.

On 19/01/2008, Ricardo Martins wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:30:46 +0000 "David Chanters" wrote:

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Ok - i did this and restarted pidgin, and still nothing. Where would the dzen bar appear? i have other dzen instances running just fine. if it matters, here's the relevant lines from my config:

statusBarCmd= "dzen2 -bg '#2c2c32' -fg 'grey70' -w 370 -x 0 -ta l -p -e ''" main = do din <- spawnPipe statusBarCmd xmonad $ withUrgencyHook dzenUrgencyHook { args = ["-bg", "purple", "-fg", "white", "-xs", "-1"] } $ sConfig d

Certainly I see nothing on screen 1 --- should I? And for how long, and where? I don't even know what I am supposed to be seeing. :)

Hmm, shouldn't it be "1" instead of "-1" after "-xs"?

So it should -- changed, but *still* nothing. :(

I don't use Xinerama, so I don't know the behaviour with more than one screen, but the dzen notification should appear on top of your screen, for about 1 or two seconds. I'm far too ignorant about xmonad and dzen to be sure, actually.

Thanks though Is there some way to debug this? -- Thomas Adam

On 20/01/2008, Thomas Adam wrote:

On 20/01/2008, David Chanters wrote:

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On 19/01/2008, Ricardo Martins wrote:

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 23:30:46 +0000 "David Chanters" wrote:

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Ok - i did this and restarted pidgin, and still nothing. Where would the dzen bar appear? i have other dzen instances running just fine. if it matters, here's the relevant lines from my config:

statusBarCmd= "dzen2 -bg '#2c2c32' -fg 'grey70' -w 370 -x 0 -ta l -p -e ''" main = do din <- spawnPipe statusBarCmd xmonad $ withUrgencyHook dzenUrgencyHook { args = ["-bg", "purple", "-fg", "white", "-xs", "-1"] } $ sConfig d

Certainly I see nothing on screen 1 --- should I? And for how long, and where? I don't even know what I am supposed to be seeing. :)

Hmm, shouldn't it be "1" instead of "-1" after "-xs"?

So it should -- changed, but *still* nothing. :(

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I don't use Xinerama, so I don't know the behaviour with more than one screen, but the dzen notification should appear on top of your screen, for about 1 or two seconds. I'm far too ignorant about xmonad and dzen to be sure, actually.

Thanks though Is there some way to debug this?

Have you tried a basic config from a template? Such as on the wiki? Maybe it's something in your config?

-- Thomas Adam

where do i find such a template? David.