[Xmonad] Statusbar ideas

[Robert Manea]

Hi,

i just played a bit with xmonad and added 2 new actions to dzen2 to be
better suitable as a statusbar.

* Example 1: Custom statusbar

Add the following to your .xinitrc just before xmonad is being called:

    dwm-status.sh | dzen2 -p -e 'sigusr1=raise;sigusr2=lower;onquit=exec:rm /tmp/dzen2-pid;button3=exit' & echo $! > /tmp/dzen2-pid

Add 2 keybindings to Config.hs:

    , ((modMask,               xK_s     ), spawn "kill -10 `cat /tmp/dzen2-pid`")
    , ((modMask,               xK_t     ), spawn "kill -12 `cat /tmp/dzen2-pid`")

dwm-status.sh can be found here (zsh script!):
    http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dwm-status.sh

mod-s raises the statusbar to view
mod-t lowers it (hides it behind the other windows)


* Example 2: xmonad debugging output

.xinitrc:

    xmonad 2>&1 | dzen2 -p -e 'sigusr1=raise;sigusr2=lower;onquit=exec:rm /tmp/dzen2-pid;button3=exit' & echo $! > /tmp/dzen2-pid 
    while :; do sleep 3600; done

Add the same key bindings as described above.

You could use then '-l <n>' feature to keep a log of the debugging
output and scroll through it, too.

This is a really hackish approach but good enough for debugging purposes
as i think :).


IMPORTANT:  For all this to work you'll need the latest svn version of
            dzen2!
            Get it with:
            svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen


Have fun, Rob