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kusen

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Registered: 2015-03-11

Posts: 2

[SOLVED]bspwm + bar: The bar is invisible

Hello all!

I have an issue with the bar aint recursive not being visible.

The guide I followed was this but I installed it through yaourt. Searches in the forum where the issue has been solved doesn't seem to be working for me..
It is kinda a similar issue to this one
I have the following configuration :

~/.config/bspwm/bspwmrc

#! /bin/sh
bspc config border_width 2
bspc config window_gap 12
bspc config split_ratio 0.52
bspc config borderless_monocle true
bspc config gapless_monocle true
bspc config focus_by_distance true
bspc monitor -d I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
bspc rule -a Gimp desktop=^8 follow=on floating=on
bspc rule -a Chromium desktop=^2
bspc rule -a mplayer2 floating=on
bspc rule -a Kupfer.py focus=on
bspc rule -a Screenkey manage=off

panel &

~/.zprofile

export PATH="$PATH:/home/caous/.config/bspwm/panel/"
PANEL_FIFO=/tmp/panel-fifo
PANEL_HEIGHT=24
PANEL_FONT_FAMILY="-*-terminus-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-c-*-*-1"
export PANEL_FIFO PANEL_HEIGHT PANEL_FONT_FAMILY

~/.xinitrc

.xinitrc  
sxhkd &
setxkbmap se
feh --bg-scale /home/caous/Picture/LZs2u1x.jpg
exec bspwm

I have the same configuration files as found here for the panel scripts https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/tr … ples/panel
If I echo $PANEL_FIFO i get /tmp/panel-fifo as a result.
I can see that the panel processes are running when checking with ps aux | grep panel or using top.

The thing that is weirdest is that if i run the command

 echo "test" | bar -p 

I only get output in the terminal and a panel is not visible in the top. When running the scripts for panel I can see that bspwm reserves space for it in the top

The xtitle and sutils are installed aswell.

I'm guessing I missed something but thankful for any help I can get.

Last edited by kusen (2015-03-11 16:57:16)

kusen

Member

Registered: 2015-03-11

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]bspwm + bar: The bar is invisible

Hi,

Managed to solve this directly after I posted the post.

Instead of install bar through yaourt I cloned the lemonbar git and did a make and make install and now it works.
Marking this as solved.