dzen & xmobar Hacking Thread

scj · 2008-06-21 16:11:32

gotmor wrote:

Can you provide some sample input that you feed to dmplex?

I looked into what got written to the fifo file and I found out that the pidgin plugin simply didn't write a newline character. I fixed it and now things are working perfectly!

Last edited by scj (2008-06-21 16:25:51)

ukognos · 2008-08-01 15:17:47

hello,

how can i show workspaces on the top left of the screen like here:

http://gotmor.googlepages.com/Xmonad_sc … n-full.jpg

and how can i install fonts like -*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*?

Last edited by ukognos (2008-08-01 15:18:09)

Mr.Elendig · 2008-08-02 10:48:31

ukognos wrote:

hello,
how can i show workspaces on the top left of the screen like here:
http://gotmor.googlepages.com/Xmonad_sc … n-full.jpg
and how can i install fonts like -*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*?

1. Asuming you are using xmonad: XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog is what you want.

2. Search before you ask

[oh@Alice][~]%pacman -Ss terminus
community/terminus-font 4.26-1
    A superb, monospace bitmap font (for X11 and console)

Edit: make sure you got /usr/share/fonts/local in the fontpath in xorg.conf, else it won't show up in xfontsel.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2008-08-02 10:49:50)

ukognos · 2008-08-03 11:24:39

thanks for your help

ukognos · 2008-08-10 11:06:37

I've created a small pidgin plugin which writes your current status in a pipe. And a dzen bar script which reads it and shows it on the bar
It is not finished but it is useable

You can download it and read more on the project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/pipe-notification/

so long ukognos

Vintendo · 2008-08-11 01:01:37

I gave a dzen setup with conky and i have a problem with fs-bar, does fs-bar work in conky-cli?

Last edited by Vintendo (2008-08-11 01:02:10)

Berticus · 2008-08-11 02:31:51

ukognos wrote:

I've created a small pidgin plugin which writes your current status in a pipe. And a dzen bar script which reads it and shows it on the bar
It is not finished but it is useable
You can download it and read more on the project homepage: http://code.google.com/p/pipe-notification/
so long ukognos

Sweet, now I won't need trayer!

Berticus · 2008-09-01 16:15:39

$ dzen2 -h
dzen-0.8.5, (C)opyright 2007 Robert Manea

So I have the latest version, but I can't seem to get xpm's to work. I triple checked to make sure the xpm it's using exists and is in the location I'm using. But it won't show up.

buttons · 2008-09-01 16:35:21

You have to compile it yourself with XPM support.

I posted a PKGBUILD earlier in this thread for 0.8.5 that should hopefully still work...

PKGBUILD

Berticus · 2008-09-01 18:28:24

sort of... It gets rid of the gadgets (want gcpubar). I tried to install dzen2-gadgets through aur, but it complained about replacing packages. Is there a way to get the gadgets back? Or will I just have to make it myself?

buttons · 2008-09-01 20:37:56

Try this one:

pkgname=dzen2
pkgver=0.8.5
pkgrel=1
arch=(i686 x86_64)
pkgdesc="X notification utility"
url="http://gotmor.googlepages.com/dzen"
license=("MIT")
depends=('libx11')
makedepends=('gcc')
source=(http://gotmor.googlepages.com/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('5978620c2124c8a8ad52d7f17ce94fd7')

build()
{
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver

  patch config.mk <<EOF
7,8c7,8
< PREFIX = /usr/local
< MANPREFIX = \${PREFIX}/share/man
---
> PREFIX = /usr
> MANPREFIX = \${PREFIX}/man
10,11c10,11
< X11INC = /usr/X11R6/include
< X11LIB = /usr/X11R6/lib
---
> X11INC = /usr/include
> X11LIB = /usr/lib
22,23c22,23
< LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lc -L\${X11LIB} -lX11
< CFLAGS = -Os \${INCS} -DVERSION=\"\${VERSION}\"
---
> #LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lc -L\${X11LIB} -lX11
> #CFLAGS = -Os \${INCS} -DVERSION=\"\${VERSION}\"
26,27c26,27
< #LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lc -L\${X11LIB} -lX11 -lXpm
< #CFLAGS = -Os \${INCS} -DVERSION=\"\${VERSION}\" -DDZEN_XPM
---
> LIBS = -L/usr/lib -lc -L\${X11LIB} -lX11 -lXpm
> CFLAGS = -Os \${INCS} -DVERSION=\"\${VERSION}\" -DDZEN_XPM
EOF

  make || return 1
  mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
  cp $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/LICENSE $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/license
  chmod 644 $startdir/pkg/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/license
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install

  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver/gadgets
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install
}

It's the same thing, with gadgets tacked on at the end. Let me know if it works.

Berticus · 2008-09-01 21:27:05

yeah, this works. Thanks

Ashren · 2008-09-25 18:59:56

Lately I've been thinking a lot about a another solution for the "left click ws tab => go to selected ws" (dwm behaviour) problem. I know that redbeards solution does work, but I wanted to create my own - just for the fun of it I guess. Below is what I came up with. You'll need xdotool (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14789) and getcurpos (http://dzen.geekmode.org/dwiki/doku.php … e-position) for it to work. Here's the script:

#!/bin/bash
# 
# WSSW
# By REJ/Ashren
# 
# Workspace switcher for Xmonad using cursor position to determine which
# workspace to switch to.
#
# Get cursor position:
 
XP=$(getcurpos | cut -d" " -f1)

YP=$(getcurpos | cut -d" " -f2)

# Set your workspace tab min/max values on the x-axis.

w1l=44

w2l=45
w2h=79

w3l=80
w3h=117

w4l=118
w4h=155

w5l=119
w5h=206

# Have the script exit if Y value is outside the dzen window.

if [ $YP -gt "16" ]; then

exit 0

fi

# Have a loop that checks cursor position and executes virtual keystrokes.

while true; do
    

if [ $XP -le "$w1l" ]; then

    xdotool key alt+1

elif [[ $XP -ge "$w2l" && $XP -le "$w2h" ]]; then

    xdotool key alt+2

elif [[ $XP -ge "$w3l" && $XP -le "$w3h" ]]; then

    xdotool key alt+3

elif [[ $XP -ge "$w4l" && $XP -le "$w4h" ]]; then

    xdotool key alt+4

elif [[ $XP -ge "$w5l" && $XP -le "$w5h" ]]; then

    xdotool key alt+5
fi

break 

done

You'll have to adjust the variables w*l to your own ws tab sizes, which you can get with getcurpos, and adjust the script for the number of workspaces as well. Any corrections are welcome. I'm still learning to bash.

It works as aspected directly from the command line also if I test it with dzen2 i.e. "dzen2 -w 230 -e 'button1=wssw'", but as once as I enter it into my xmonad.hs it will not work. Like so:

import XMonad
import System.Exit
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Util.Run (spawnPipe)
import System.IO (hPutStrLn)
import XMonad.Util.Loggers

import qualified XMonad.StackSet as W
import qualified Data.Map        as M

myKeys conf@(XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = M.fromList $
    [ ((modMask,               xK_Return), spawn $ XMonad.terminal conf)
    , ((modMask,               xK_g     ), spawn "gmrun")
    , ((modMask,               xK_f     ), spawn "firefox")
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_m     ), spawn "sudo shutdown -h now")
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_c     ), kill)
    , ((modMask,               xK_space ), sendMessage NextLayout)
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_space ), setLayout $ XMonad.layoutHook conf)
    , ((modMask,               xK_n     ), refresh)
    , ((modMask,               xK_Tab   ), windows W.focusDown)
    , ((modMask,               xK_j     ), windows W.focusDown)
    , ((modMask,               xK_e     ), windows W.focusDown)
    , ((modMask,               xK_Right ), windows W.focusDown)
    , ((modMask,               xK_k     ), windows W.focusUp  )
    , ((modMask,               xK_Left  ), windows W.focusUp  )
    , ((modMask,               xK_m     ), windows W.focusMaster  )
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_Return), windows W.swapMaster)
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_e     ), windows W.swapDown  )
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_j     ), windows W.swapDown  )
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_k     ), windows W.swapUp    )
    , ((modMask,               xK_h     ), sendMessage Shrink)
    , ((modMask,               xK_l     ), sendMessage Expand)
    , ((modMask,               xK_t     ), withFocused $ windows . W.sink)
    , ((modMask              , xK_b     ), sendMessage ToggleStruts)
    , ((modMask .|. shiftMask, xK_q     ), io (exitWith ExitSuccess))
    , ((modMask              , xK_q     ), spawn "killall dzen2 && killall conky" >> restart "xmonad" True)
    ]
    ++
    [((m .|. modMask, k), windows $ f i)
        | (i, k) <- zip (XMonad.workspaces conf) [xK_1 .. xK_9]
        , (f, m) <- [(W.greedyView, 0), (W.shift, shiftMask)]]

myMouseBindings (XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask}) = M.fromList $
    [ ((modMask, button1), (\w -> focus w >> mouseMoveWindow w))    
    , ((modMask, button2), (\w -> focus w >> windows W.swapMaster))
    , ((modMask, button3), (\w -> focus w >> mouseResizeWindow w))
    ]
 
myLayout = avoidStruts (tall ||| Mirror tall ||| Full)
  where
     tall   = Tall nmaster delta ratio
     nmaster = 1
     ratio   = 1/2
     delta   = 2/100
 
myManageHook = composeAll
    [ className =? "MPlayer"        --> doFloat
    , className =? "Gimp"           --> doFloat
    , className =? "Gran Paradiso"  --> doF (W.shift "web")
    , resource  =? "desktop_window" --> doIgnore]
 
myLogHook h = dynamicLogWithPP $ defaultPP {
              ppCurrent  = dzenColor "#222222" "white" . pad
            , ppVisible  = dzenColor "white" "black" . pad
            , ppHidden   = dzenColor "lightblue" "#222222" . pad 
            , ppHiddenNoWindows = dzenColor "#777777"  "#222222" . pad
            , ppUrgent   = dzenColor "red" "yellow"
            , ppWsSep    = "^r(2x17)"
            , ppSep      = "^fg(white)^r(2x17)"
            , ppLayout   = dzenColor "lightblue" "#222222" .
                           (\ x -> fill (case x of
                                           "Tall"               -> icon "tall.xbm"
                                           "Mirror Tall"        -> icon "mtall.xbm"
                                           "Full"               -> icon "full.xbm"
                                           _                    -> pad x) 4)
            , ppTitle    = ("^fg(white) ^ib(1)^ro(593x16)^pa(235)^fg(orange)^ib(1) " ++) . dzenEscape  
            , ppOutput   = hPutStrLn h
            }
    where
      icon h = "^i(/home/edgar/dzen_bitmaps/" ++ h ++ ")"
      fill :: String -> Int -> String
      fill h i = "^p(" ++ show i ++ ")" ++ h ++ "^p(" ++ show i ++ ")"
      square h = "^ib(1)^fg(black)^ro(43x16)"
      ib h = "^ib(1)"
 
myStatusBar = "dzen2 -fn '-*-dina-*-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' -bg '#222222' -fg '#777777' -h 16 -ta l -sa c -w 830 -e 'button1=exec:wssw'"
secondDzenCommand = "conky -c ~/.xdzenconky | dzen2 -expand c -fn '-*-dina-*-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' -bg '#222222' -h 16 -w 1210 -e '' -x 830" 
main = do din <- spawnPipe myStatusBar
      spawnPipe secondDzenCommand

          xmonad $ defaultConfig {
                       
                       terminal           = "urxvtc",
                       focusFollowsMouse  = True,
                       borderWidth        = 1,
                       modMask            = mod1Mask,
                       numlockMask        = mod2Mask,
                       workspaces         = ["main","web","dev","fun","music"],
                       normalBorderColor  = "#000000",
                       focusedBorderColor = "white", 
 
                       -- key bindings
                       keys               = myKeys,
                       mouseBindings      = myMouseBindings,
 
                       -- hooks, layouts
                       layoutHook         = myLayout,
                       manageHook         = myManageHook,
                       logHook            = myLogHook din
                     }

I guess that the dzen2 event never gets out of xmonad? Any ideas and explanations are welcome.

I have found one shoddy solution which is to place a transparent dzen title window on top of my workspaces. Which I did the following way (if someones interested):

dzen2 -w 207 -p -e 'button1=exec:wssw' & transset .0 & sleep1 ; xdotool mousemove 5 5 ; xdotool click 1

It's just too dirty to be content with, though.

Ashren

Last edited by Ashren (2008-10-01 13:29:52)

Ashren · 2008-10-01 12:45:39

HAH! It works now! The reason why it did not work was because Xmonad's startup script was not a Xsession script - duh! I was using GDM with a non-xession startup script.

Well, now I have a working dwmstyle WS switcher. YAY!

PandaMine · 2008-10-19 09:54:47

I am also having troubles using the multiplexer for dzen, for some weird reason when using dmplex with xmonad outputting with stdo xmonad won't display. I have the workspace info which is printed out by the PP and more info that is printed out by conky which I wan't to be fed into the single bar

EDIT:

Currently my only problem is figuring out how to concat the "1 " before the output of logHook and unfortunatly this needs to be done before it is written

Assuming you have the dyanamicLogWithPP constructor as so

    myLogHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ defaultPP {
          ppCurrent = dzenColor "#ffffff" "#000000" . pad
            , ppVisible = dzenColor "#888888" "#000000" . pad
            , ppHidden = dzenColor "#888888" "#000000" . pad 
            , ppHiddenNoWindows = dzenColor "#888888"  "#000000" . pad
            , ppOutput = writeFile "dmpipe"  
        }

What would you do so it writes what it currently does with a "1 " infront of it so it works with dmplex?

Last edited by PandaMine (2008-10-19 13:21:37)

Zariel · 2008-10-22 10:35:01

I wrote an mpd-np program in C to print the nowplaying info to stdout, i can run it from terminal fine but when i use Run Com "mpdnp" [] "mpdnp" 10 in xmobarrc it gives the error Could Not Execute Command mpdnp.

The file in /usr/bin

peets · 2008-11-22 01:04:40

file print-test.c

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
  while(1) {
    printf("1\n");
    /* adding a call to fflush(stdout) here fixes my problem */
    sleep(1);
  }
  return 0;
}

It prints a '1' and a newline every second or so. When I pipe it into dzen (./print-test | dzen2), dzen displays nothing. Why?

Hmmm... this has nothing to do with dzen. './print-test | grep 1' produces no output. Neither does './print-test | perl -e'while(<>){print}'. Must have to do with me not understanding how pipes work fully.

I can only vaguely understand why this works, but calling fflush(3) fixes my problem. Mefinds talking to oneself is often useful.

Last edited by peets (2008-11-22 04:13:18)

Gigamo · 2008-12-27 16:01:11

Hi. Sorry if this has been asked/answered before, but is there an easy way to show battery percentage in xmobar?

Thanks.

goll · 2008-12-31 05:54:53

Well, as far as i can see, you already have it configured in your .xmobarrc at your github The line is:

, Run Battery ["-t","Bat: <left>"] 10

litemotiv · 2009-01-13 16:18:29

i'm using the rx_bytes and tx_bytes info to calculate transfer speeds, yet while download speeds seem to be about right (about 10% too high, but i guess that's overhead), upload speeds are shown roughly 2-3 times higher than they actually are; they even exceed my line capacity with about a factor 2.

does anyone know why this happens?

just in case, this is the relevant part of the script:

#!/bin/zsh

WIFIVAL=2
WIFICOUNTER=$WIFIVAL

TRANSFER='/sys/class/net/wlan0/statistics'
BASEDOWN="$(<$TRANSFER/rx_bytes)"
BASEUP="$(<$TRANSFER/tx_bytes)"

while true; do

if [ $WIFICOUNTER -ge $WIFIVAL ]; then

   currentdown="$(<$TRANSFER/rx_bytes)"
   currentup="$(<$TRANSFER/tx_bytes)"

   (( kbdown = ($currentdown-$BASEDOWN) / 1024 / $WIFIVAL ))
   (( kbup = ($currentup-$BASEUP) / 1024 / $WIFIVAL ))

   PRINTWIFI=$(print -n $kbdown"k/s down" $kbup"k/s up")

   BASEDOWN=$currentdown
   BASEUP=$currentup

   WIFICOUNTER=0
fi

WIFICOUNTER=$((WIFICOUNTER+1))

done

gotmor · 2009-02-13 18:24:52

Dzen has undergone some changes lately and now supports, besides XFT fonts, clickable areas.

See HERE for further details.

Comments and possible bug/testing reports welcome.

Ashren · 2009-02-13 19:25:51

With Dzen's new functionality my script for changing workspaces is now redundant.

Here is what to do get the same functionality:

1. Checkout and install the newest dzen svn.
2. Install xdotool
3. Create as many scripts as you have workspaces, i.e. calling them ws1-5, with the following content

#!/bin/bash
xdotool key alt+1

where the number changes corresponding to your workspace. Put these scripts in your PATH.
4. Add the following to your workspace list in your xmonad.hs:

workspaces         = "^ca(1,ws1)main^ca()":"^ca(1,ws2)web^ca()":"^ca(1,ws3)code^ca()":"^ca(1,ws4)fun^ca()":"^ca(1,ws5)misc^ca()":[],

The reason for creating the scripts is that the ^ca switch does not execute stacked commands.

Last edited by Ashren (2009-02-13 19:50:43)

buttons · 2009-02-13 19:47:26

I think that's

xdotool key <key>+1

Where <key> is alt, super, whatever

Ashren · 2009-02-13 19:50:20

Thanks for pointing it out. Post corrected.

Paul-S · 2009-02-13 21:55:28

Cool stuff Ashren

Arch Linux

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