[xmonad] Configuration Issue version 0.17

[Brandon Allbery]

A few observations:

(1) You misspelled "xft:ubuntu". This should have shown up in the
terminal, though. (But see (3) below.)

(2) Your xmonad.hs is actually a re-paste of your .xmobarrc.

(3) It's not that unusual that closing a terminal kills any programs
started from it. Moreover, if you backgrounded it, you won't see any
messages from it; at most you'll see a message from the shell that it
stopped on output. You would need to foreground it (`fg %1`) to see
the message(s). Correct way to do this is to start it without `&`,
wait for it to initialize itself, then press control-Z to background
it; then type `disown %1` so the shell in the terminal won't kill it
on exit. (This should also resume it; if not, you may need to
explicitly `bg %1` to resume it after control-Z stops it.)

On Sat, Apr 2, 2022 at 5:11 PM Michael Needham <jmikeneedham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all:
> I am not sure how I borked my xmonad been trying to configure it to run trayer xmobar and dmenu and started working with it today.
>
> I added workspaces to the config and now it appears this has borked my xmobar.  I am simply trying to get xmobar to show the workspaces.  Xmobar starts and then quits I can restart from terminal but the minute I close the terminal it disappears again.  I have to assume I am doing something wrong as it worked before the workspaces.  please see both config files below
>
>  xmobarrc:
> ------------------
> Config { overrideRedirect = False
>        , font     = "xft:ubunutu"
>        , bgColor  = "#5f5f5f"
>        , fgColor  = "#f8f8f2"
>        , position = TopW L 90
>        , commands = [ Run Weather "KMCI"
>                         [ "--template", "<weather> <tempC>°C"
>                         , "-L", "0"
>                         , "-H", "25"
>                         , "--low"   , "lightblue"
>                         , "--normal", "#f8f8f2"
>                         , "--high"  , "red"
>                         ] 36000
>                     , Run Cpu
>                         [ "-L", "3"
>                         , "-H", "50"
>                         , "--high"  , "red"
>                         , "--normal", "green"
>                         ] 10
>                     , Run Alsa "default" "Master"
>                         [ "--template", "<volumestatus>"
>                         , "--suffix"  , "True"
>                         , "--"
>                         , "--on", ""
>                         ]
>                     , Run Memory ["--template", "Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10
>                     , Run Swap [] 10
>                     , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d <fc=#8be9fd>%H:%M</fc>" "date" 10
>                     , Run XMonadLog
>                     ]
>        , sepChar  = "%"
>        , alignSep = "}{"
>        , template = "%XMonadLog% }{ %alsa:default:Master% | %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %KMCI% | %date% "
>        }
> _____________
>
> xmonad.hs:
> ------------------------
>
> Config { overrideRedirect = False
>        , font     = "xft:ubunutu"
>        , bgColor  = "#5f5f5f"
>        , fgColor  = "#f8f8f2"
>        , position = TopW L 90
>        , commands = [ Run Weather "KMCI"
>                         [ "--template", "<weather> <tempC>°C"
>                         , "-L", "0"
>                         , "-H", "25"
>                         , "--low"   , "lightblue"
>                         , "--normal", "#f8f8f2"
>                         , "--high"  , "red"
>                         ] 36000
>                     , Run Cpu
>                         [ "-L", "3"
>                         , "-H", "50"
>                         , "--high"  , "red"
>                         , "--normal", "green"
>                         ] 10
>                     , Run Alsa "default" "Master"
>                         [ "--template", "<volumestatus>"
>                         , "--suffix"  , "True"
>                         , "--"
>                         , "--on", ""
>                         ]
>                     , Run Memory ["--template", "Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10
>                     , Run Swap [] 10
>                     , Run Date "%a %Y-%m-%d <fc=#8be9fd>%H:%M</fc>" "date" 10
>                     , Run XMonadLog
>                     ]
>        , sepChar  = "%"
>        , alignSep = "}{"
>        , template = "%XMonadLog% }{ %alsa:default:Master% | %cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %KMCI% | %date% "
>        }
> ---------------------
>
> Hope someone can tell me to revert back or properly add workspaces.  I really only want clickable workspaces and launch a terminal on ws 2 and also volume control in trayer with the pipewire controls for proaudio (like gnome volume control or KDE Plasman pa.
>
> Thanks in advance and hope someone can see where it went wrong.
>
> Thanks in advnace.
>
>
> --
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Michael Needham
>
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