[xmonad] updating.... in xmobar

[Jacob Alexandersson]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <
andrew at swclan.homelinux.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:52:08AM +0100, Jacob Alexandersson wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I just started trying xmonad out, and I really ilke it. I've used
> ratpoison
> > in the past but eventually gave it up. xmonad seems to work better for me
> so
> > far.
> >
> > I realize this is a xmobar question, but I am guessing there are people
> on
> > this list that uses xmobar also.
> >
> > I have a .xmobarrc which looks like follows:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Config { font = "-*-Fixed-Bold-R-Normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
> >         , bgColor = "black"
> >         , fgColor = "grey"
> >         , position = TopW L 100
> >         , lowerOnStart = True
> >         , commands = [ Run Cpu
> > ["-L","3","-H","50","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
> >                     , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10
> >                     , Run Swap [] 10
> >                     , Run Date "%a %b %_d %l:%M" "date" 10
> >                     , Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "blaj" 36000
> >                     , Run StdinReader
> >                     ]
> >        , sepChar = "%"
> >        , alignSep = "}{"
> >        , template = "%StdinReader% }{ %blaj%  %cpu% | %memory% * %swap%
> > <fc=#ee9a00>%date%</fc>"
> >        }
> >
> > </snip>
> >
> > ...and in ~/.xmonad/xmonad.hs I have:
> >
> > <snip>
> > ...
> > xmproc <- spawnPipe "/usr/bin/xmobar /home/jcx/.xmobarrc"
> > ...
> > </snip>
> >
> >
> > All I get is "updating..." where %StdinReader% is placed. Is this
> correct??
> > Am I missing something?
>
> you've got the end of the pipe in xmproc, you just need to feed it
> some data with something like:
>
> myLogHook dest = dynamicLogWithPP defaultPP { ppOutput = hPutStrLn dest
>                                            ,ppVisible = wrap "(" ")"
>                                            }
>
>  xmonad $ defaultConfig
>             { ...
>             , logHook = myLogHook xmproc
>             }
>
> hope this helps
>
>
Thanks, that díd the trick. Jasper also helped me out although he didn't
reply to the list.
I'm a happy xmonad-newbie. I really dig it! :-)

//J
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