dzen & xmobar Hacking Thread

jOaNbE · 2011-01-26 14:28:35

Have anybody managed to get dropbox status icons to display through dzen? When I use i3 window manager, I don't get the status icons when running dropboxd (I don't really rely on the icons alone but they are nice to have).

I've looked at the dzen and dropbox sites and looked through a few dzen threads but I have not found anything on this (I apologize if I've missed anything obvious). Dropbox uses .png images but that can be changed to xbm.

tvale · 2011-01-27 13:37:42

jOaNbE wrote:

Have anybody managed to get dropbox status icons to display through dzen? When I use i3 window manager, I don't get the status icons when running dropboxd (I don't really rely on the icons alone but they are nice to have).
I've looked at the dzen and dropbox sites and looked through a few dzen threads but I have not found anything on this (I apologize if I've missed anything obvious). Dropbox uses .png images but that can be changed to xbm.

The dropbox-cli package in AUR is a command line interface to dropbox. You can make use of it!

gorilla · 2011-03-16 02:08:06

Today I tried dmplex to pipe the output of a script and the output of conky-cli to dzen2. It works so far, but very, very slow and conky only appears, when I hit Ctrl+C. Is this normal? If yes, is there another way to do this?

What I did:

mkfifo .dmpipe

tail -f .dmpipe | dmplex | dzen2 -p -ta l

./myscript > .dmpipe  #the script writes the number as well
echo "2" | conky > .dmpipe

When I pipe them seperately and directly to dzen, it works perfect, but of course only one of each...

nixfag · 2011-04-16 08:28:50

Does anybody know how can I get the workspace switcher like in awesome in xmonad?

Ashren · 2011-04-16 11:57:45

nixfag: Try this: http://www.arch-ed.dk/wiki/doku.php?id= … workspaces

nixfag · 2011-04-16 14:12:10

Ashren: I've tried that and it didn't work.Here's the config : http://sprunge.us/jOZI?hs
And here's the error:
$ xmonad --recompile
Error detected while loading xmonad configuration file: /home/derp/.xmonad/xmonad.hs

xmonad.hs:7:3: parse error on input `main'

Please check the file for errors.

xmonad: xmessage: executeFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

Last edited by nixfag (2011-04-16 14:14:05)

Ashren · 2011-04-16 16:50:00

nixfag: You need to install xdotool.

nixfag · 2011-04-16 18:36:55

Ashren: I do have xdotool installed.

Ashren · 2011-04-16 19:02:10

nixfag: Your indentation looks wrong.

Look here: http://www.arch-ed.dk/wiki/doku.php?id=xmonad.hs

and here:
ttp://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive

nixfag · 2011-04-18 08:02:19

I've used the template config at that page and modified a little bit,here it is http://sprunge.us/WVOZ?hs
I've also added those lines for clickable workspaces.Now how do I run dzen2 so it will show the workspaces?I've tried running 'dzen2' but it doesn't output anything and shows nothing.
I just want a bar that sits on the top,has clickable workspaces,prints the active window title and then shows the system tray.

thayer · 2011-05-10 17:21:07

Does anyone know if it's possible to wrap the window title (or logTitle) with xdotool tags?

I've recently come back to Xmonad after years of dwm and I miss the ability to kill focused clients by middle-clicking the window title in the statusbar. It seems this would be easy enough, given that it can be done to the workspaces and layouts, but my haskell foo is sadly lacking.

Edit:

Turns out it wasn't that difficult at all...for anyone else interested:

ppTitle   = dzenColor "#ffffff" "" 
                    . wrap "^ca(1,xdotool key super+k)^ca(2,xdotool key super+shift+c)"
                           "                          ^ca()^ca()" . shorten 20 . dzenEscape

Clicking the left button on the window title will cycle to the next client; clicking the middle button will kill the selected client.

The rest of the config, and a mouse-less xmobar version, can be found at github:

http://github.com/thayerwilliams

Last edited by thayer (2011-05-29 00:15:44)

grimp3ur · 2011-05-28 21:52:09

thayer wrote:

ppTitle   = dzenColor "#ffffff" "" 
                    . wrap "^ca(1,xdotool key super+k)^ca(2,xdotool key super+shift+c)" "  ^ca()^ca()" 
                    . shorten 20

You probably miss ". dzenEscape" (afrer "shorten"): consider the case when <title> contents "^ca(1, ...)".

thayer · 2011-05-29 00:15:11

grimp3ur wrote:

You probably miss ". dzenEscape" (afrer "shorten"): consider the case when <title> contents "^ca(1, ...)".

Good catch, thanks! I've updated the snippet.

cyrusza · 2011-06-07 13:59:09

Little question, there's a way (hack, patch, etc.) to prevent dzen dimming?

Last edited by cyrusza (2011-06-07 13:59:57)

thayer · 2011-06-07 15:00:45

cyrusza wrote:

Little question, there's a way (hack, patch, etc.) to prevent dzen dimming?

Dimming? What exactly is it doing?

cyrusza · 2011-06-07 18:31:52

thayer wrote:

cyrusza wrote:
Little question, there's a way (hack, patch, etc.) to prevent dzen dimming?
Dimming? What exactly is it doing?

After 8 seconds bar content darkens, like a "power saving" mode.

thayer · 2011-06-07 23:24:19

cyrusza wrote:

thayer wrote:
cyrusza wrote:
Little question, there's a way (hack, patch, etc.) to prevent dzen dimming?
Dimming? What exactly is it doing?
After 8 seconds bar content darkens, like a "power saving" mode.

I've never heard of that before, but whatever it is I'm fairly certain it isn't dzen causing it; there is no dimming feature in dzen.

cyrusza · 2011-06-08 00:43:21

thayer wrote:

cyrusza wrote:
thayer wrote:
Dimming? What exactly is it doing?
After 8 seconds bar content darkens, like a "power saving" mode.
I've never heard of that before, but whatever it is I'm fairly certain it isn't dzen causing it; there is no dimming feature in dzen.

Strange. I have this behaviour with both WMFS and ScrotWM and i thought it was a default undocumented feature. Maybe the dev has some hints to debug this.

cyrusza · 2011-06-08 10:04:27

cyrusza wrote:

thayer wrote:
cyrusza wrote:
After 8 seconds bar content darkens, like a "power saving" mode.
I've never heard of that before, but whatever it is I'm fairly certain it isn't dzen causing it; there is no dimming feature in dzen.
Strange. I have this behaviour with both WMFS and ScrotWM and i thought it was a default undocumented feature. Maybe the dev has some hints to debug this.

Ok, found the culprit, it's the cairo composite manager

eriksatie · 2011-07-10 18:34:34

Hi

I have an arch xbm logo that I'd like displayed in dzen

anyone know a good way to go about doing this?

nixfag · 2011-07-10 19:27:00

eriksatie wrote:

Hi
I have an arch xbm logo that I'd like displayed in dzen
anyone know a good way to go about doing this?

^i(/path/to/icon.xbm)

eriksatie · 2011-07-30 04:21:05

nixfag wrote:

eriksatie wrote:
Hi
I have an arch xbm logo that I'd like displayed in dzen
anyone know a good way to go about doing this?
^i(/path/to/icon.xbm)

this is the error I'm getting when I execute that

arch.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `~/.icons/arch.xbm'
arch.sh: line 1: `^i(~/.icons/arch.xbm)'

gotmor · 2011-07-30 06:32:32

eriksatie wrote:

this is the error I'm getting when I execute that
arch.sh: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `~/.icons/arch.xbm'
arch.sh: line 1: `^i(~/.icons/arch.xbm)'

 
echo 'my shiny icon: ^i(/home/USER/.icons/arch.xbm)' | dzen2 -p

srijan4 · 2011-08-23 16:17:31

tvale wrote:

jOaNbE wrote:
Have anybody managed to get dropbox status icons to display through dzen? When I use i3 window manager, I don't get the status icons when running dropboxd (I don't really rely on the icons alone but they are nice to have).
I've looked at the dzen and dropbox sites and looked through a few dzen threads but I have not found anything on this (I apologize if I've missed anything obvious). Dropbox uses .png images but that can be changed to xbm.
The dropbox-cli package in AUR is a command line interface to dropbox. You can make use of it!

I have tried doing this, and was mostly successful. Here is my code. Note that I am a beginner in shell scripting, so the following might contain errors I don't know yet.

#!/bin/sh
DZEN_ICONPATH="${HOME}/.dzen"
BOOL=0
while true; do
  dropbox running
  DROPBOXRUNNING=$?
  if [[ $DROPBOXRUNNING -eq 1 ]]; then
    DROPBOXSTATUS=` dropbox status`
    if [[ $DROPBOXSTATUS = "Idle" ]]; then
      DROPBOXLINE="^i(${DZEN_ICONPATH}/dropbox-idle.xpm)"
    elif [[ $DROPBOXSTATUS = "Starting..." ]]; then
      DROPBOXLINE="^i(${DZEN_ICONPATH}/dropbox-logo.xpm)"
    else
      if [[ $BOOL -eq 0 ]]; then
	DROPBOXLINE="^i(${DZEN_ICONPATH}/dropbox-busy.xpm)"
      else
	DROPBOXLINE="^i(${DZEN_ICONPATH}/dropbox-busy2.xpm)"
      fi
      BOOL=~$BOOL
    fi
  else
    DROPBOXLINE="^ca(1,dropbox start)^i(${DZEN_ICONPATH}/dropbox-x.xpm)^ca()"
  fi
  echo "$DROPBOXLINE"
  sleep 1s
done | dzen2

When dropbox is not running, clicking on the icon starts it. I am using the dropbox-cli and dzen2-xft-xpm-xinerama-svn packages from AUR.
I am trying to add more stuff to this. Lets see how it goes.

Jabrick · 2011-10-22 21:58:45

Moved to newbie section.

Last edited by Jabrick (2011-10-22 22:18:20)

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