[xmonad] xmobar

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Wed, Nov 16 2011, Marco Guidetti wrote:

[...]

> I have seen that in XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog (xmobar) there is a way to
> do this (even if I still don't fully comprehend how to use it for the
> DynamicLog, for example).
> It's not clear to me how to use for multiple xmobar instances (as in my case).

I run two xmobar instances launched from outside xmobar, using dynamic
logs.  In my xmonad.hs i have:

  , logHook = dynamicLogString xmobarCfg >>= xmonadPropLog

where

  xmobarCfg = defaultPP
    { ppSep = " "
    , ppCurrent = xmobarColor defHilite ""
    , ppTitle = xmobarTitle
    , ppLayout = ppLayoutName
    , ppHidden = transNSP
    }
    where xmobarTitle = xmobarColor defFg "" . shorten 50
          ppLayoutName x = case x of
                             "Tall" -> "·:"
                             "ThreeCol" -> "·::"
                             "Full" -> "·"
                             "Grid" -> "::"
                             _ -> x

and one of my xmobar instances has in its Commands:

    , Run XMonadLog

and XMonadLog in the template.  All that is left is a shell script
invoking the two xmobar instances, after killing any running one (for
easy restart):

    #!/bin/bash

    cfg0=${1:-"$HOME/etc/xmobar/xmobar-bottom"}
    cfg1=${4:-"$HOME/etc/xmobar/xmobar-top"}

    pidof xmobar && killall xmobar

    xmobar $cfg0 &
    xmobar $cfg1 &

I call this script in my .xinitrc, and every time i one to restart my
xmobars; restarting xmonad doesn't affect them.

HTH,
jao
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