summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffhomepage
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2010-12-07 01:23:18 +0100
committerJose Antonio Ortega Ruiz <jao@gnu.org>2010-12-07 01:23:18 +0100
commit45488d2255ef4dca903468416b2414f062da18ad (patch)
tree6df2416195dabb643c28aa5f1466de6c29dd0fc6 /README
parent0aeb1bb6c7d3a5ea8bcb39ea41e50651a117c327 (diff)
downloadxmobar-45488d2255ef4dca903468416b2414f062da18ad.tar.gz
xmobar-45488d2255ef4dca903468416b2414f062da18ad.tar.bz2
README.md back to README
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README784
1 files changed, 784 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cd4f0c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README
@@ -0,0 +1,784 @@
+% xmobar - A Minimalistic Text Based Status Bar
+% Andrea Rossato, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
+
+About
+=====
+
+xmobar is a minimalistic, text based, status bar. It was originally
+designed and implemented by Andrea Rossato to work with [xmonad],
+but it's actually window-manager-agnostic.
+
+xmobar was inspired by the [Ion3] status bar, and supports similar
+features, like dynamic color management, output templates, and
+extensibility through plugins.
+
+[This is a screen shot] of Andrea's desktop with [xmonad] and xmobar.
+
+[xmonad]: http://xmonad.org
+[Ion3]: http://tuomov.iki.fi/software/
+[This is a screen shot]: http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/ae/Arossato-config.png
+
+Installation
+============
+
+## Using cabal-install
+
+Xmobar is available from [Hackage], and you can install it using
+`cabal-install`:
+
+ cabal install xmobar
+
+See below for a list of optional compilation flags that will enable
+some optional plugins. For instance, to install xmobar with all the
+bells and whistles, use:
+
+ cabal install xmobar --flags="all_extensions"
+
+## From source
+
+If you don't have `cabal-install` installed, you can get its source
+from [Github]:
+
+ git clone git://github.com/jaor/xmobar
+
+To install simply run:
+
+ tar xvfz xmobar-0.9
+ cd xmobar-0.9
+
+Then run the configure script:
+
+ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
+
+ # To enable UTF-8 support run:
+ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --flags="with_utf8"
+
+ # To enable both XFT and UTF-8 support run:
+ runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --flags="with_xft"
+
+Now you can build the source:
+
+ runhaskell Setup.lhs build
+ runhaskell Setup.lhs install # possibly to be run as root
+
+
+## Optional features
+
+You can configure xmobar to include some optional plugins and
+features, which are not compiled by default. To that end, you need to
+add one or more flags to either the cabal install command or the
+configure setup step, as shown in the examples above.
+
+Extensions need additional libraries (listed below) that will be
+automatically downloaded and installed if you're using cabal install.
+Otherwise, you'll need to install them yourself.
+
+`with_utf8`
+: UTF-8 support. Requires the [utf8-string] package.
+
+`with_xft`
+: Antialiased fonts. Requires the [X11-xft] package. This option
+ automatically enables UTF-8.
+
+ To use XFT fonts you need to use the `xft:` prefix in the `font`
+ configuration option. For instance:
+
+ font = "xft:Times New Roman-10:italic"
+
+`with_mpd`
+: Enables support for the [MPD] daemon. Requires the [libmpd] package.
+
+`with_inotify`
+: Support for inotify in modern linux kernels. This option is needed
+ for the MBox and Mail plugins to work.
+
+`with_iwlib`
+: Support for wireless cards. Enables the Wireless plugin. No Haskell
+ library is required, but you will need the [iwlib] C library and
+ headers in your system (e.g., install `libiw-dev` in Debian-based
+ systems).
+
+`all_extensions`
+: Enables all the extensions above.
+
+Running xmobar
+==============
+
+You can now run xmobar with:
+
+ xmobar /path/to/config &
+
+or
+
+ xmobar &
+
+if you have the default configuration file saved as `~/.xmobarrc`
+
+Configuration
+=============
+
+## Quick Start
+
+See [xmobar.config-sample] for an example.
+
+For the output template:
+
+- `%command%` will execute command and print the output. The output
+ may contain markups to change the characters' color.
+
+- `<fc=#FF0000>string</fc>` will print `string` with `#FF0000` color
+ (red).
+
+Other configuration options:
+
+`font`
+: Name of the font to be used. Use the `xft:` prefix for XFT fonts.
+
+`bgColor`
+: Background color.
+
+`fgColor`
+: Default font color.
+
+`position`
+: Top, TopW, TopSize, Bottom, BottomW, BottomSize or Static (with x, y,
+ width and height).
+
+: TopW and BottomW take 2 arguments: an alignment parameter (L for
+ left, C for centered, R for Right) and an integer for the
+ percentage width xmobar window will have in respect to the
+ screen width.
+
+: TopSize and BottomSize take 3 arguments: an alignment parameter, an
+ integer for the percentage width, and an integer for the minimum pixel
+ height that the xmobar window will have.
+
+: For example:
+
+: position = BottomW C 75
+
+: to place xmobar at the bottom, centered with the 75% of the screen width.
+
+: Or
+
+: position = Static { xpos = 0 , ypos = 0, width = 1024, height = 15 }
+
+: or
+
+: position = Top
+
+`border`
+: TopB, TopBM, BottomB, BottomBM, FullB, FullBM or NoBorder (default).
+
+: TopB, BottomB, FullB take no arguments, and request drawing a
+ border at the top, bottom or around xmobar's window,
+ respectively.
+
+: TopBM, BottomBM, FullBM take an integer argument, which is the
+ margin, in pixels, between the border of the window and the
+ drawn border.
+
+`borderColor`
+: Border color.
+
+`commands`
+: For setting the options of the programs to run (optional).
+
+`sepChar`
+: The character to be used for indicating commands in the output
+ template (default '%').
+
+`alignSep`
+: a 2 character string for aligning text in the output template. The
+ text before the first character will be align to left, the text in
+ between the 2 characters will be centered, and the text after the
+ second character will be align to the right.
+
+`template`
+: The output template.
+
+## Running xmobar with i3status
+
+xmobar can be used to display information gathered by [i3status], a
+small program that gathers information and formats it suitable for
+being displayed by the dzen2 status bar, wmii's status bar or xmobar's
+StdinReader.
+
+Since xmobar support has been added only recently you need to get the
+git repository, and build it with the appropriate flags:
+
+ git clone git://code.stapelberg.de/i3status
+
+and then build it:
+
+ cd i3status
+ make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DXMOBAR
+
+Then you can run it with:
+
+ ./i3status -c i3status.conf | xmobar -o -t "%StdinReader%" -c "[Run StdinReader]"
+
+## Command Line Options
+
+xmobar can be either configured with a configuration file or with
+command line options. In the second case, the command line options
+will overwrite the corresponding options set in the configuration
+file.
+
+Example:
+
+ xmobar -B white -a right -F blue -t '%LIPB%' -c '[Run Weather "LIPB" [] 36000]'
+
+This is the list of command line options (the output of
+xmobar --help):
+
+ Usage: xmobar [OPTION...] [FILE]
+ Options:
+ -h, -? --help This help
+ -V --version Show version information
+ -f font name --font=font name The font name
+ -B bg color --bgcolor=bg color The background color. Default black
+ -F fg color --fgcolor=fg color The foreground color. Default grey
+ -o --top Place xmobar at the top of the screen
+ -b --bottom Place xmobar at the bottom of the screen
+ -a alignsep --alignsep=alignsep Separators for left, center and right text
+ alignment. Default: '}{'
+ -s char --sepchar=char The character used to separate commands in
+ the output template. Default '%'
+ -t template --template=template The output template
+ -c commands --commands=commands The list of commands to be executed
+ -x screen --screen=screen On which X screen number to start
+ Mail bug reports and suggestions to <xmobar@projects.haskell.org>
+
+## The Output Template
+
+The output template must contain at least one command. xmobar will
+parse the template and will search for the command to be executed in
+the `commands` configuration option. First an `alias` will be searched
+(plugins such as Weather or Network have default aliases, see below).
+After that, the command name will be tried. If a command is found, the
+arguments specified in the `commands` list will be used.
+
+If no command is found in the `commands` list, xmobar will ask the
+operating system to execute a program with the name found in the
+template. If the execution is not successful an error will be
+reported.
+
+## The `commands` Configuration Option
+
+The `commands` configuration option is a list of commands information
+and arguments to be used by xmobar when parsing the output template.
+Each member of the list consists in a command prefixed by the `Run`
+keyword. Each command has arguments to control the way xmobar is going
+to execute it.
+
+The option consists in a list of commands separated by a comma and
+enclosed by square parenthesis.
+
+Example:
+
+ [Run Memory ["-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"] 10, Run Swap [] 10]
+
+to run the Memory monitor plugin with the specified template, and the
+swap monitor plugin, with default options, every second.
+
+The only internal available command is `Com` (see below Executing
+External Commands). All other commands are provided by plugins.
+xmobar comes with some plugins, providing a set of system monitors,
+a standard input reader, an Unix named pipe reader, and a configurable
+date plugin. These plugins install the following internal commands:
+`Weather`, `Network`, `Memory`, `Swap`, `Cpu`, `MultiCpu`, `Battery`,
+`Thermal`, `CpuFreq`, `CoreTemp`, `Date`, `StdinReader`,
+`CommandReader`, and `PipeReader`.
+
+To remove them see below Installing/Removing a Plugin
+
+Other commands can be created as plugins with the Plugin
+infrastructure. See below Writing a Plugin
+
+## System Monitor Plugins
+
+This is the description of the system monitor plugins that are
+installed by default.
+
+Each monitor has an `alias` to be used in the output template.
+Monitors have default aliases.
+
+`Weather StationID Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to the Station ID: so `Weather "LIPB" []` can be used in template as `%LIPB%`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `station`, `stationState`, `year`, `month`, `day`, `hour`,
+ `wind`, `visibility`, `skyCondition`, `tempC`, `tempF`,
+ `dewPoint`, `rh`, `pressure`
+- Default template: `<station>: <tempC>C, rh <rh>% (<hour>)`
+- Requires `curl` in the `$PATH` to retrieve weather information from
+ `http://weather.noaa.gov`
+
+`Network Interface Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to the interface name: so `Network "eth0" []` can be used as `%eth0%`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `dev`, `rx`, `tx`, `rxbar`, `txbar`
+- Default template: `<dev>: <rx>|<tx>`
+
+`Wireless Interface Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to the interface name with the suffix "wi": thus, `Wirelss
+ "wlan0" []` can be used as `%wlan0wi%`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `essid`, `quality`, `qualitybar`
+- Default template: `<essid> <quality>`
+- Requires the C library libiw (part of the wireless tools suite)
+ installed in your system. In addition, to activate this plugin you
+ must pass --flags="with_iwlib" to "runhaskell Setup configure"
+ or to "cabal install".
+
+`Memory Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `memory`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `total`, `free`, `buffer`, `cache`, `rest`, `used`,
+ `usedratio`, `usedbar`, `freebar`
+- Default template: `Mem: <usedratio>% (<cache>M)`
+
+`Swap Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `swap`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `total`, `used`, `free`, `usedratio`
+- Default template: `Swap: <usedratio>%`
+
+`Cpu Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `cpu`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `total`, `bar`, `user`, `nice`, `system`, `idle`
+- Default template: `Cpu: <total>`
+
+`MultiCpu Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `multicpu`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `total`, `bar`, `user`, `nice`, `system`, `idle`,
+ `total0`, `bar0`, `user0`, `nice0`, `system0`, `idle0`, ...
+- Default template: `Cpu: <total>`
+
+`Battery Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `battery`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `left`, `leftbar`, `status`
+- Default template: `Batt: <left>`
+
+`BatteryP Dirs Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `battery`
+- Dirs: list of directories in /proc/acpi/battery/ directory where to
+ look for the `state` and `info` files. Example:
+ `["BAT0","BAT1","BAT2"]`. Only the first 3 directories will be
+ searched.
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `left`, `leftbar`, `status`
+- Default template: `Batt: <left>`
+
+`TopProc Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `top`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `no`, `name1`, `cpu1`, `both1`, `mname1`, `mem1`, `mboth1`,
+ `name2`, `cpu2`, `both2`, `mname2`, `mem2`, `mboth2`, ...
+- Default template: `<both1>`
+- Displays the name and cpu/mem usage of running processes (`bothn`
+ and `mboth` display both, and is useful to specify an overall
+ maximum and/or minimum width, using the `-m`/`-M` arguments. `no` gives
+ the total number of processes.
+
+`TopMem Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `topmem`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `name1`, `mem1`, `both1`, `name2`, `mem2`, `both2`, ...
+- Default template: `<both1>`
+- Displays the name and RSS (resident memory size) of running
+ processes (`bothn` displays both, and is useful to specify an
+ overall maximum and/or minimum width, using the `-m`/`-M` arguments.
+
+`DiskU Disks Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `disku`
+- Disks: list of pairs of the form (device or mount point, template),
+ where the template can contain <size>, <free>, <used>, <freep> or
+ <usedp>, <freebar> or <usedbar> for total, free, used, free
+ percentage and used percentage of the given file system capacity. Example:
+ `[("/", "<used>/<size>"), ("sdb1", "<usedbar>")]`
+- Args: the argument list (see above). `-t`/`--template` is ignored.
+- Default template: none (you must specify a template for each file system).
+
+`DiskIO Disks Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `diskio`
+- Disks: list of pairs of the form (device or mount point, template),
+ where the template can contain <total>, <read>, <write> for total,
+ read and write speed, respectively. Example:
+ `[("/", "<read> <write>"), ("sdb1", "<total>")]`
+- Args: the argument list (see above). `-t`/`--template` is ignored.
+- Default template: none (you must specify a template for each file system).
+
+`Thermal Zone Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to the Zone: so `Zone "THRM" []` can be used in template as `%THRM%`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `temp`
+- Default template: `Thm: <temp>C`
+- This plugin works only on sytems with devices having thermal zone.
+ Check directories in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for possible values.
+- Example: `Run Thermal "THRM" ["-t","iwl4965-temp: <temp>C"]`
+
+`CpuFreq Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `cpufreq`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `cpu0`, `cpu1`, .., `cpuN`
+- Default template: `Freq: <cpu0>GHz`
+- This monitor requires acpi_cpufreq module to be loaded in kernel
+- Example: `Run CpuFreq ["-t","Freq:<cpu0>|<cpu1>GHz","-L","0","-H","2","-l","lightblue","-n","white","-h","red"] 50`
+
+`CoreTemp Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `coretemp`
+- Args: the argument list (see below)
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `core0`, `core1`, .., `coreN`
+- Default template: `Temp: <core0>C`
+- This monitor requires coretemp module to be loaded in kernel
+- Example: `Run CoreTemp ["-t","Temp:<core0>|<core1>C","-L","40","-H","60","-l","lightblue","-n","gray90","-h","red"] 50`
+
+`MPD Args RefreshRate`
+
+- aliases to `mpd`
+- Args: the argument list (see below). In addition you can provide
+ `-P`, `-S` and `-Z`, with an string argument, to represent the
+ playing, stopped and paused states in the `statei` template field,
+ and `-h`, `-p` and `-x` for the host, port and password (default
+ host is "localhost", port 6600 and empty password).
+- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
+ `bar`, `state`, `statei`, `volume`, `length`
+ `lapsed`, `remaining`,
+ `plength` (playlist length), `ppos` (playlist position)
+ `name`, `artist`, `composer`, `performer`
+ `album`, `title`, `track`, `file`, `genre`
+- Default template: `MPD: <state>`
+- Example:
+ `Run MPD ["-t",
+ "<composer> <title> (<album>) <track>/<plength> <statei> ",
+ "--", "-P", ">>", "-Z", "|", "-S", "><"] 10`
+ Note that you need "--" to separate regular monitor options from
+ MPD's specific ones.
+- This monitor will only be compiled if you ask for it using the
+ `with_mpd` flag. It needs libmpd 4.1 or later (available on Hackage).
+
+`Mail Args`
+
+- aliases to `Mail`
+- Args: list of maildirs in form [("name1","path1"),("name2","path2")]
+- This plugin requires INOTIFY support in Linux kernel and hinotify library.
+ To activate, pass --flags="with_inotify" to "runhaskell Setup configure"
+ or to "cabal install".
+
+`MBox Mboxes Opts Alias`
+
+- Mboxes a list of mbox files of the form [("name", "path", "color")],
+ where name is the displayed name, path the absolute or relative (to
+ BaseDir) path of the mbox file, and color the color to use to display
+ the mail count (use an empty string for the default).
+- Opts is a possibly empty list of options, as flags. Possible values:
+ -a --all (no arg) Show all mailboxes, even if empty.
+ -d dir --dir dir a string giving the base directory where mbox files with
+ a relative path live.
+ -p prefix --prefix prefix a string giving a prefix for the list
+ of displayed mail coints
+ -s suffix --suffix suffix a string giving a suffix for the list
+ of displayed mail coints
+- This plugin requires INOTIFY support in Linux kernel and hinotify library.
+ To activate, pass --flags="with_inotify" to "runhaskell Setup
+ configure" or to "cabal install".
+- Example:
+ `Run MBox [("I ", "inbox", "red"), ("O ", "/foo/mbox", "")]
+ ["-d", "/var/mail/", "-p", " "] "mbox"`
+ will look for mails in `/var/mail/inbox` and `/foo/mbox`, and will put
+ a space in front of the printed string (when it's not empty); it
+ can be used in the template with the alias `mbox`.
+
+## Monitor Plugins Commands Arguments
+
+These are the arguments that can be used for internal commands in the
+`commands` configuration option:
+
+ -H number --High=number The high threshold
+ -L number --Low=number The low threshold
+ -h color number --high=color number Color for the high threshold: es "#FF0000"
+ -n color number --normal=color number Color for the normal threshold: es "#00FF00"
+ -l color number --low=color number Color for the low threshold: es "#0000FF"
+ -p number --ppad=number Pad percentages to given width
+ -m number --minwidth=number Minimum field width
+ -M number --maxwidth=number Maximum field width
+ -w number --width=number Fixed field width
+ -c chars --padchars=chars Chars used (cyclically) for padding
+ -a ["r" or "l"] --align=["r" or "l"] Pad alignment (right/left)
+ -b chars --bback=chars Chars used to draw bar backgrounds (default ":")
+ -f chars --bfore=chars Chars used to draw bar foregrounds (default "#")
+ -W number --bwidth=number Bar width (default 10)
+ -t output template --template=output template Output template of the command.
+
+Commands' arguments must be set as a list. E.g.:
+
+ Run Weather "EGPF" ["-t","<station>: <tempC>C"] 36000
+
+In this case xmobar will run the weather monitor, getting information
+for the weather station ID EGPF (Glasgow Airport, as a homage to GHC)
+every hour (36000 tenth of seconds), with a template that will output
+something like:
+
+ Glasgow Airport: 16.0C
+
+## Executing External Commands
+
+In order to execute an external command you can either write the
+command name in the template, in this case it will be executed without
+arguments, or you can configure it in the "commands" configuration
+option list with the Com template command:
+
+`Com ProgramName Args Alias RefreshRate`
+
+- ProgramName: the name of the program
+- Args: the arguments to be passed to the program at execution time
+- Alias: a name to be used in the template. If the alias is en empty
+ string the program name can be used in the template.
+
+Es:
+
+ Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "" 36000
+
+can be used in the output template as `%uname%`
+
+ Run Com "date" ["+\"%a %b %_d %H:%M\""] "mydate" 600
+
+can be used in the output template as `%mydate%`
+
+## Other Plugins
+
+`Date Args Alias RefreshRate`
+
+`StdinReader`
+
+`CommandReader "/path/to/program" Alias`
+
+`PipeReader "/path/to/pipe" Alias`
+
+Plugins
+=======
+
+## Writing a Plugin
+
+Writing a plugin for xmobar should be very simple. You need to create
+a data type with at least one constructor.
+
+Next you must declare this data type an instance of the `Exec` class, by
+defining the 1 needed method (alternatively `start` or `run`) and 2
+optional ones (alias and rate):
+
+ start :: e -> (String -> IO ()) -> IO ()
+ run :: e -> IO String
+ rate :: e -> Int
+ alias :: e -> String
+
+`start` must receive a callback to be used to display the `String`
+produced by the plugin. This method can be used for plugins that need
+to perform asynchronous actions. See `Plugins/PipeReader.hs` for an
+example.
+
+`run` can be used for simpler plugins. If you define only `run` the
+plugin will be run every second. To overwrite this default you just
+need to implement `rate`, which must return the number of tenth of
+seconds between every successive runs. See `Plugins/HelloWorld.hs` for
+an example of a plugin that runs just once, and `Plugins/Date.hs` for
+one that implements `rate`.
+
+Notice that Date could be implemented as:
+
+ instance Exec Date where
+ alias (Date _ a _) = a
+ start (Date f _ r) = date f r
+
+ date :: String -> Int -> (String -> IO ()) -> IO ()
+ date format r callback = do go
+ where go = do
+ t <- toCalendarTime =<< getClockTime
+ callback $ formatCalendarTime defaultTimeLocale format t
+ tenthSeconds r >> go
+
+This implementation is equivalent to the one you can read in
+`Plugins/Date.hs`.
+
+`alias` is the name to be used in the output template. Default alias
+will be the data type constructor.
+
+Implementing a plugin requires importing the plugin API (the `Exec`
+class definition), that is exported by `Plugins.hs`. So you just need
+to import it in your module with:
+
+ import Plugins
+
+After that your type constructor can be used as an argument for the
+Runnable type constructor `Run` in the `commands` list of the
+configuration options.
+
+This requires importing your plugin into `Config.hs` and adding your
+type to the type list in the type signature of `Config.runnableTypes`.
+
+For a very basic example see `Plugins/HelloWorld.hs` or the other
+plugins that are distributed with xmobar.
+
+## Installing/Removing a Plugin
+
+Installing a plugin should require 3 steps. Here we are going to
+install the HelloWorld plugin that comes with xmobar:
+
+1. import the plugin module in `Config.hs`, by adding:
+
+ import Plugins.HelloWorld
+
+2. add the plugin data type to the list of data types in the type
+ signature of `runnableTypes` in `Config.hs`. For instance, for the
+ HelloWorld plugin, change `runnableTypes` into:
+
+ runnableTypes :: Command :*: Monitors :*: HelloWorld :*: ()
+ runnableTypes = undefined
+
+3. Rebuild and reinstall xmobar. Now test it with:
+
+ xmobar Plugins/helloworld.config
+
+As you may see in the example configuration file, the plugin can be
+used by adding, in the `commands` list:
+
+ Run HelloWorld
+
+and, in the output template, the alias of the plugin:
+
+ %helloWorld%
+
+That's it.
+
+To remove a plugin, just remove its type from the type signature of
+runnableTypes and remove the imported modules.
+
+To remove the system monitor plugin:
+
+1. remove, from `Config.hs`, the line
+
+ import Plugins.Monitors
+
+2. in `Config.hs` change
+
+ runnableTypes :: Command :*: Monitors :*: ()
+ runnableTypes = undefined
+
+ to
+
+ runnableTypes :: Command :*: ()
+ runnableTypes = undefined
+
+3. rebuild xmobar.
+
+Bug Reports
+===========
+
+To submit bug reports you can use the [bug tracker over at Google
+code] or send mail to our [Mailing list].
+
+[bug tracker over at Google code]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues
+
+Credits
+=======
+
+__Andrea Rossato__:
+
+Thanks to Robert Manea and Spencer Janssen for their help in
+understanding how X works. They gave me suggestions on how to solve
+many problems with xmobar.
+
+Thanks to Claus Reinke for make me understand existential types (or at
+least for letting me think I grasp existential types...;-).
+
+xmobar incorporates patches from: Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz, Spencer
+Janssen, Jens Petersen, Dmitry Kurochkin, Lennart Kolmodin, and
+Norbert Zeh.
+
+__jao__:
+
+Thanks to Andrea for creating xmobar in the first place, and for
+giving the chance to contribute.
+
+Useful links
+============
+
+- [Github page].
+- [Mailing list].
+- Andrea's original [xmobar] home page, and [xmobar darcs repository].
+
+- To understand the internal mysteries of xmobar you may try reading
+ [this tutorial] on X Window Programming in Haskell.
+
+- My [sawflibs] project includes a module to automate running xmobar
+ in [sawfish].
+
+[xmobar]: http://code.haskell.org/~arossato/xmobar/
+[xmobar darcs repository]: http://code.haskell.org/xmobar
+[this tutorial]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/X_window_programming_in_Haskell
+[sawflibs]: http://github.com/jaor/sawflibs
+[sawfish]: http://sawfish.wikia.com/
+
+Author
+======
+
+Andrea Rossato originally designed and implemented xmobar up to
+version 0.11.1. Since then, it is maintained by [Jose Antonio Ortega
+Ruiz](http://hacks-galore.org/jao/).
+
+Legal
+=====
+
+This software is released under a BSD-style license. See [LICENSE] for
+more details.
+
+Copyright &copy; 2007-2010 Andrea Rossato
+
+Copyright &copy; 2010 Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
+
+[Github]: http://github.com/jaor/xmobar/
+[Github page]: http://github.com/jaor/xmobar
+[Hackage]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmobar/
+[LICENSE]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/raw/master/LICENSE
+[Mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar
+[MPD]: http://mpd.wikia.com/
+[X11-xft]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11-xft/
+[i3status]: http://i3.zekjur.net/i3status/
+[iwlib]: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
+[libmpd]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/libmpd/
+[utf8-string]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/utf8-string/
+[xmobar.config-sample]: http://github.com/jaor/xmobar/raw/master/xmobar.config-sample