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somepeople4

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[SOLVED] Xmonad with xmobar setup issue

I recently did a clean install of Arch Linux on my computer, and decided to give Xmonad a try. I have met a small issue with xmobar's StdinReader not properly piped with the status it should display. All that it displays is

Updating...

Having followed multiple tutorials, it is very likely that I have done something wrong. The issue could also be that my clean and careful install has left some necessary components missing. Few have the same problem as I, and those that do simply did not spawn a pipeline inside xmonad.hs. It is also possible that my beginner Haskell skills has left me with the wrong formatting. Please help me figure this out.

I back up my dotfiles on GitHub, and are linked here
.xmobarrc
.xmonad/xmonad.hs

Thanks in advance.
David

Last edited by somepeople4 (2015-10-08 17:17:40)

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Xmonad with xmobar setup issue

Welcome to the forums.

Add the following to the 'commands' section:

,  Run StdinReader

somepeople4

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Re: [SOLVED] Xmonad with xmobar setup issue

Oh my gosh I thought "Updating..." means that there was nothing wrong with xmobar but just the pipe setup!
That was silly of me. Thank you so much for the help, that solved it.

David

Yeah hah I'm new to the forums, I'll be sure to hang around more. For now, how do I mark this thread as solved?

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Xmonad with xmobar setup issue

For now, how do I mark this thread as solved?

Edit the opening post and prepend [SOLVED] to the title.

somepeople4

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Re: [SOLVED] Xmonad with xmobar setup issue

Great! Thanks again!