Comments on: Howto: Step by Step Configuration of XMonad

By: Nepherte

Nepherte — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:42:09 +0000

There are 2 lines in particular you have to look at:
1/ conkyStatsBar = “conky -c .conkyrc_console | dzen2 -x ’960′ -y ’0′ -h ’24′ -w ’890′ -ta ‘l’ -fg ‘#3EB5FF’ -bg ‘#000000′ -fn ‘-*-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*-*’”

2/ conkyStats < - spawnPipe conkyStatsBar

The first line is just the full command that has to be executed. It's a conky which outputs to a dzen2 status bar. The second line runs the command conkyStatsBar and puts it in conkyStats. conkyStats isn't used anywhere else. So you could leave out the assignment to conkyStats like this: spawnPipe conkyStatsBar. Note that workspaceBar is used later on in the logHook so you can't leave out that assignment.

You can find one of my xmonad.hs files here (this one doesn't have the conkyStatsBar but it has numerous other conky bars you can take a look at): http://www.nepherte.be/files/config/home/bart/xmonad/xmonad.hs

By: tel

tel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:11:49 +0000

Thanks for the tutorial. I don’t see, though, where conkyStats is used. Is there a line missing? Can you post your complete xmonad.hs?

Thanks!

By: Nepherte

Nepherte — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:36:03 +0000

I kinda accidently published this article, because it’s not reallly finished yet :) It should be though in less than a week. Anyways, you can find .conkyrc_console here: http://www.nepherte.be/files/config/home/bart/conkyrc_console

By: Hector

Hector — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:23:44 +0000

Great tutorial!
Could you please post your .conkyrc_console file?
Thanks