[xmonad] Using conky as the main status bar -- possible?

[Mikael Puhakka]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 17:08,  <wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Quoting Mikael Puhakka <mr.progo at gmail.com>:
>
>> There would be some issues ahead: for instance, how conky handles
>> stdin. I googled and  googled and nothing came up; most of the users
>
> For the xmonad experts but conky non-experts out there, can you be a bit
> more specific? Why do you expect a problem here? What is wonky about how
> conky handles stdin?
>
> ~d
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I haven't figured out how conky takes stdin. I can't find from the
documents anything about outputting stdin stream, there are no
variables[1] for that. I should have taken this to Conky's mailing
lists first, but as I recall someone used conky with xmonad well. I
couldn't find the post from archives, but maybe somebody pops up.

[1] http://conky.sourceforge.net/variables.html
--Mikael