[xmonad] xmobar troubles

[Tony Morris]

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Yes, it is newline-terminated. The output of hexdump is 0a30.

I have it narrowed down to using a https connection instead of http. I
can produce it with either curl or wget. xmobar is not logging anything.

Grasping at straws... any more ideas?


On 12/02/11 04:09, Norbert Zeh wrote:
> Is the output you see from the script newline-terminated? If it
> isn't, xmobar may not process this input because, at least for the
> stdin reader (and I assume the mail reader does the same), it
> processes things one line at a time. Then again, I don't see why
> the whole bar should hang if it isn't newline-terminated.
> Normally, it should just display "Updating..." or something like
> that if it's waiting for input from the command it runs.
>
> - Norbert
>
> Tony Morris [2011.02.11 2236 +1000]:
>>
> Hello, I am trying to run a script to check gmail as described here
> (with some errors)
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmobar#Gmail_integration
>
> When I set the template to %mail% and restart xmobar, the bar
> refuses to display. If I set the script to a non-existent file, I
> see xmobar with a message "Could not execute command", so I know
> it's all configured fine, but for the script that checks gmail. If
> I run that script manually, I see a single integer value on
> standard output.
>
> I can't seem to find any place that xmobar is logging to help
> identify what is causing the error (xmobar refusing to display when
> asked to Run Com my script.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
>>
>>
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