[xmonad] task bar

Devin Mullins devin.mullins at gmail.com
Sun Oct 12 07:45:26 UTC 2014


As for displaying the systray on top of xmobar, I believe trayer can be
used to that effect. Here's one example I just found via web search:
http://archlinux.me/kofrad/tag/trayer/

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Alain Bertrand <alainbe at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 11/10/2014 21:46, Brandon Allbery a écrit :
>
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Alain Bertrand <alainbe at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>  Actually, I have just checked how fbpanel behaves with openbox and though
>>> it works as it should, I got the same message
>>>
>>> can't chdir to /usr/share/openbox
>>>
>>>  Yep, that was where I was leading with the comment about strange
>> assumptions; it sees that there is an EWMH support window with the name
>> "xmonad" or "openbox" and goes looking for window manager configuration in
>> a standard location. This probably only works right with desktop
>> environments, not standalone window managers.
>>
>>  Xfce-panel works correctly with xmonad and displays the ibus status
> applet but is really ugly when set vertically. I'll stick with xmobar
> except when I really need this applet.
>
> I have still a question. If I start xmonad and then after xmobar, I got
> for a little time the situation described in the screenshot (xmobar uses
> the top of the screen right of the  window title) but soon it is updated
> and the title of the windows goes under xmobar.
> Would-it be possible to get this situation permanently ?
>
> TIA
>
> Alain
>
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