Hi all, thank you for all the feedback about the xmobar stuff: I have resolved in using an external script which manages both xmobar instances, except for the one that is with spawnPipe. It works and seems reasonable. Now, there is something more I'd like to fix. I have a Lenovo X220, and I am trying to use the mute/volume buttons. I have read something online about using this: ((0, XF86AudioLowerVolume), spawn "amixer -c 0 set Master 2dB-") ((0, XF86AudioRaiseVolume), spawn "amixer -c 0 set Master 2dB+") [in this case xmonad --recompile returns something along the line of "there is no XF86AudioRaiseVolume in current context"] or like this: ((0, 0x1008FF11), spawn "amixer -c 0 set Master 2dB-") ((0, 0x1008FF13), spawn "amixer -c 0 set Master 2dB+") [in this case a recompile succeeds, but nothing changes: probably the 0x is wrong?] but neither of them is not working. I tried to use xev to get the keycode of the volume buttons, but xev does not react at all when I press them. This *really* puzzles me, since they do work if I use my old gnome-based setup. So .... ideas? :) Thank you very much, marco PS I realize a simple solution is to bind the spawn "amixer ..." stuff to something else on the keyboard, but it doesn't seem right :)