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-% xmobar - A Minimalistic Text Based Status Bar
-
-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 usable with any window-manager.
-
-xmobar was inspired by the [Ion3] status bar, and supports similar
-features, like dynamic color management, output templates, and
-extensibility through plugins.
-
-This page documents xmobar 0.15 (see [release notes]).
-
-[This screenshot] shows xmobar running under [sawfish], with
-antialiased fonts. And [this one] is my desktop with [xmonad] and two
-instances of xmobar.
-
-[release notes]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/releases.html
-[xmonad]: http://xmonad.org
-[Ion3]: http://tuomov.iki.fi/software/
-[This screenshot]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/xmobar-sawfish.png
-[this one]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/xmobar-xmonad.png
-
-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
-
-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 xmobar's
-source code in a variety of ways:
-
- - From [Hackage]. Just download [xmobar-0.15.tar.gz] from xmobar's
- hackage page.
- - From [Github]. You can also obtain a tarball in [Github's
- downloads page]. You'll find there links to each tagged release.
- - From the bleeding edge repo. If you prefer to live dangerously,
- just get the latest and greatest (and buggiest, i guess) using
- git:
- git clone git://github.com/jaor/xmobar
-
-[xmobar-0.15.tar.gz]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/xmobar/0.15/xmobar-0.15.tar.gz
-[Github's downloads page]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/downloads
-
-To install simply run (if needed):
-
- tar xvfz xmobar-0.15
- cd xmobar-0.15
-
-If you have cabal installed, you can now use it from within xmobar's
-source tree. Otherwise, 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"
-
- # To enable all extensions
- runhaskell Setup.lhs configure --flags="all_extensions"
-
-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_mpris`
-: Enables support for MPRIS v1/v2 protocol.
- Requires the [dbus-core] and [text] packages.
-
-`with_inotify`
-: Support for inotify in modern linux kernels. This option is needed
- for the MBox and Mail plugins to work. Requires the [hinotify]
- package.
-
-`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).
-
-`with_alsa`
-: Support for ALSA sound cards. Enables the Volume plugin. Requires the
- [alsa-mixer] package.
-
-`with_datezone`
-: Support for other timezones. Enables the DateZone plugin.
- Requires [timezone-olson] and [timezone-series] package.
-
-`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`
-
-### Signal Handling
-
-Since 0.14 xmobar reacts to SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2:
-
-- After receiving SIGUSR1 xmobar moves its position to the next screen.
-
-- After receiving SIGUSR2 xmobar repositions it self on the current screen.
-
-Configuration
-=============
-
-## Quick Start
-
-See [samples/xmobar.config] for an example.
-
-[samples/xmobar.config]: http://github.com/jaor/xmobar/raw/master/samples/xmobar.config
-
-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 generated by [i3status], a
-small program that gathers system information and outputs it in
-formats suitable for being displayed by the dzen2 status bar, wmii's
-status bar or xmobar's `StdinReader`. See [i3status manual] for
-further details.
-
-## 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
- -C command --add-command=command Add to 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, a configurable date
-plugin, and much more: we list all available plugins below.
-
-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.
-
-`Uptime Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `uptime`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below). The low and high
- thresholds refer to the number of days.
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `days`, `hours`, `minutes`, `seconds`. The total uptime is the
- sum of all those fields. You can set the `-S` argument to "True"
- to add units to the display of those numeric fields.
-- Default template: `Up: <days>d <hours>h <minutes>m`
-
-`Weather StationID Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to the Station ID: so `Weather "LIPB" []` can be used in template as `%LIPB%`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (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: default monitor arguments (see below)
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `dev`, `rx`, `tx`, `rxbar`, `txbar`. Reception and transmission
- rates (`rx` and `tx`) are displayed in Kbytes per second, and you
- can set the `-S` to "True" to make them displayed with units (the
- string "Kb/s").
-- Default template: `<dev>: <rx>KB|<tx>KB`
-
-`Wireless Interface Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to the interface name with the suffix "wi": thus, `Wirelss
- "wlan0" []` can be used as `%wlan0wi%`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below)
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `essid`, `quality`, `qualitybar`
-- Default template: `<essid> <quality>`
-- Requires the C library [iwlib] (part of the wireless tools suite)
- installed in your system. In addition, to activate this plugin you
- must pass `--flags="with_iwlib"` during compilation.
-
-`Memory Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `memory`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (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: default monitor arguments (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: default monitor arguments (see below)
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `total`, `bar`, `user`, `nice`, `system`, `idle`, `iowait`
-- Default template: `Cpu: <total>%`
-
-`MultiCpu Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `multicpu`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below)
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `autototal`, `autobar`, `autouser`, `autonice`,
- `autosystem`, `autoidle`, `total`, `bar`, `user`, `nice`,
- `system`, `idle`, `total0`, `bar0`, `user0`, `nice0`,
- `system0`, `idle0`, ...
- The auto* variables automatically detect the number of CPUs on the system
- and display one entry for each.
-- Default template: `Cpu: <total>%`
-
-`Battery Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Same as `BatteryP ["BAT0", "BAT1", "BAT2"] Args RefreshRate`.
-
-`BatteryP Dirs Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `battery`
-- Dirs: list of directories in `/sys/class/power_supply/` where to
- look for the ACPI files of each battery. Example:
- `["BAT0","BAT1","BAT2"]`. Only the first 3 directories will be
- searched.
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below), plus the following specif ones:
- - `-O`: string for AC "on" status (default: "On")
- - `-o`: string for AC "off" status (default: "Off")
- - `-L`: low power (`watts`) threshold (default: -12)
- - `-H`: high power threshold (default: -10)
- - `-l`: color to display power lower than the `-L` threshold
- - `-m`: color to display power lower than the `-H` threshold
- - `-h`: color to display power highter than the `-H` threshold
- - `-p`: color to display positive power (battery charging)
- - `-f`: file in `/sys/class/power_supply` with AC info (default:
- "AC/online")
-
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `left`, `leftbar`, `timeleft`, `watts`, `acstatus`
-- Default template: `Batt: <watts>, <left>% / <timeleft>`
-- Example (note that you need "--" to separate regular monitor options from
- Battery's specific ones):
-
- Run BatteryP ["BAT0"]
- ["-t", "<acstatus><watts> (<left>%)",
- "-L", "10", "-H", "80", "-p", "3",
- "--", "-O", "<fc=green>On</fc> - ", "-o", "",
- "-L", "-15", "-H", "-5",
- "-l", "red", "-m", "blue", "-h", "green"]
- 600
- In the above example, the thresholds before the "--" separator
- refer to the `<left>` field, while those after the separator affect
- how `<watts>` is displayed.
-
-`TopProc Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `top`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below). The low and high
- thresholds (`-L` and `-H`) denote, for memory entries, the percent
- of the process memory over the total amount of memory currently in
- use and, for cpu entries, the activity percentage (i.e., the value
- of `cpuN`, which takes values between 0 and 100).
-- 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: default monitor arguments (see below). The low and high
- thresholds (`-L` and `-H`) denote the percent of the process memory
- over the total amount of memory currently in use.
-- 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.
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below). `-t`/`--template` is ignored.
-- Default template: none (you must specify a template for each file system).
-- Example:
-
- DiskU [("/", "<used>/<size>"), ("sdb1", "<usedbar>")]
- ["-L", "20", "-H", "50", "-m", "1", "-p", "3",]
- 20
-
-`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.
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below). `-t`/`--template` is ignored.
-- Default template: none (you must specify a template for each file system).
-- Example:
-
- Disks [("/", "<read> <write>"), ("sdb1", "<total>")] [] 10
-
-`ThermalZone Number Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to "thermaln": so `ThermalZone 0 []` can be used in template
- as `%thermal0%`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below)
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `temp`
-- Default template: `<temp>C`
-- This plugin works only on sytems with devices having thermal zone.
- Check directories in `/sys/class/thermal` for possible values of the
- zone number (e.g., 0 corresponds to `thermal_zone0` in that
- directory).
-- Example:
-
- Run ThermalZone 0 ["-t","<id>: <temp>C"] 30
-
-`Thermal Zone Args RefreshRate`
-
-- **This plugin is deprecated. Use `ThermalZone` instead.**
-
-- Aliases to the Zone: so `Thermal "THRM" []` can be used in template
- as `%THRM%`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (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"] 50
-
-`CpuFreq Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `cpufreq`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (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: default monitor arguments (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
-
-`Volume Mixer Element Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to the mixer name and element name separated by a colon. Thus,
- `Volume "default" "Master" [] 10` can be used as `%default:Master%`.
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below). Also accepts:
- - `-O` _string_ On string
- - The string used in place of `<status>` when the mixer element
- is on. Defaults to "[on]".
- - Long option: `--on`
- - `-o` _string_ Off string
- - The string used in place of `<status>` when the mixer element
- is off. Defaults to "[off]".
- - Long option: `--off`
- - `-C` _color_ On color
- - The color to be used for `<status>` when the mixer element
- is on. Defaults to "green".
- - Long option: `--onc`
- - `-c` _color_ Off color
- - The color to be used for `<status>` when the mixer element
- is off. Defaults to "red".
- - Long option: `--offc`
- - `--highd` _number_ High threshold for dB. Defaults to -5.0.
- - `--lowd` _number_ Low threshold for dB. Defaults to -30.0.
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `volume`, `volumebar`, `dB`, `status`
-- Note that `dB` might only return 0 on your system. This is known
- to happen on systems with a pulseaudio backend.
-- Default template: `Vol: <volume>% <status>`
-- Requires the package [alsa-core] and [alsa-mixer] installed in your
- system. In addition, to activate this plugin you must pass
- `--flags="with_alsa"` during compilation.
-
-`MPD Args RefreshRate`
-
-- This monitor will only be compiled if you ask for it using the
- `with_mpd` flag. It needs [libmpd] 5.0 or later (available on Hackage).
-- Aliases to `mpd`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (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.
- The environment variables `MPD_HOST` and `MPD_PORT` are used to configure the
- mpd server to communicate with.
-- 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 (note that you need "--" to separate regular monitor options from
- MPD's specific ones):
-
- Run MPD ["-t",
- "<composer> <title> (<album>) <track>/<plength> <statei> ",
- "--", "-P", ">>", "-Z", "|", "-S", "><"] 10
-
-`Mpris1 PlayerName Args RefreshRate`
-- Aliases to `mpris1`
-- Requires [dbus-core] and [text] packages.
- To activate, pass `--flags="with_mpris"` during compilation.
-- PlayerName: player supporting MPRIS v1 protocol, in lowercase.
-- Args: default monitor arguments.
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `album`, `artist`, `arturl`, `length`, `title`, `tracknumber`
-- Default template: `<artist> - <title>`
-- Example:
-
- Run Mpris1 "clementine" ["-t",
- "<artist> - [<tracknumber>] <title>"] 10
-
-`Mpris2 PlayerName Args RefreshRate`
-- Just like Mpris1.
- Supposed to be used with mediaplayers which support MPRIS v2.
-
-`Mail Args Alias`
-
-- Args: list of maildirs in form
- `[("name1","path1"),...]`. Paths may start with a '~'
- to expand to the user's home directory.
-- This plugin requires inotify support in your linux kernel and the
- [hinotify] package. To activate, pass `--flags="with_inotify"`
- during compilation.
-- Example:
-
- Run Mail [("inbox", "~/var/mail/inbox"),
- ("lists", "~/var/mail/lists")]
- "mail"
-
-
-`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
-- Paths may start with a '~' to expand to the user's home directory.
-- This plugin requires inotify support in your linux kernel and the
- [hinotify] package. To activate, pass `--flags="with_inotify"`
- during compilation.
-- Example. The following command 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`:
-
- Run MBox [("I ", "inbox", "red"), ("O ", "~/foo/mbox", "")]
- ["-d", "/var/mail/", "-p", " "] "mbox"
-
-`XPropertyLog PropName`
-
-- Aliases to `PropName`
-- Reads the X property named by `PropName` (a string) and displays its
- value. The [samples/xmonadpropwrite.hs script] in xmobar's
- distribution can be used to set the given property from the output
- of any other program or script.
-
-[samples/xmonadpropwrite.hs script]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/raw/master/samples/xmonadpropwrite.hs
-
-`NamedXPropertyLog PropName Alias`
-
-- Same as XPropertyLog, but a custom alias can be specified.
-
-`Brightness Args RefreshRate`
-
-- Aliases to `bright`
-- Args: default monitor arguments (see below), plus the following specif ones:
- - `-D`: directory in `/sys/class/backlight/` with files in it
- (default: "acpi_video0")
- - `-C`: file with the current brightness (default:
- actual_brightness)
- - `-M`: file with the maximum brightness (default:
- max_brigtness)
-- Variables that can be used with the `-t`/`--template` argument:
- `hbar`, `percent`, `bar`
-- Default template: `<percent>`
-- Example:
-
- Run Brightness ["-t", "<bar>"] 60
-
-`Kbd Opts`
-
-- Registers to XKB/X11-Events and output the currently active keyboard layout.
- Supports replacement of layoutnames.
-- Aliases to `kbd`
-- Opts is a list of tuple:
- - first element of the tuple is the search string
- - second element of the tuple is the corresponding replacement
-- Example:
-
- Run Kbd [("us(dvorak)", "DV"), ("us", "US")]
-
-
-## Monitor Plugins Commands Arguments
-
-These are the arguments that can be used for internal commands in the
-`commands` configuration option:
-
-- `-t` _string_ Output template
- - Template for the monitor output. Field names must be enclosed
- between pointy brackets (`<foo>`) and will be substituted by the
- computed values. You can also specify the foreground (and
- optionally, background) color for a region by bracketing it
- between `<fc=fgcolor>` (or `<fc=fgcolor,bgcolor>`) and
- `</fc>`. The rest of the template is output verbatim.
- - Long option: `--template`
- - Default value: per monitor (see above).
-- `-H` _number_ The high threshold.
- - Numerical values higher than _number_ will be displayed with the
- color specified by `-h` (see below).
- - Long option: `--High`
- - Default value: 66
-- `-L` _number_ The low threshold.
- - Numerical values higher than _number_ and lower than the high
- threshold will be displayed with the color specified by `-m`
- (see below). Values lower than _number_ will use the `-l` color.
- - Long option: `--Low` - Default value: 80
- - Default value: 33
-- `-h` _color_ High threshold color.
- - Color for displaying values above the high threshold. _color_ can
- be either a name (e.g. "blue") or an hexadecimal RGB (e.g.
- "#FF0000").
- - Long option: `--high`
- - Default: none (use the default foreground).
-- `-n` _color_ Color for 'normal' values
- - Color used for values greater than the low threshold but lower
- than the high one.
- - Long option: `--normal`
- - Default: none (use the default foreground).
-- `-l` _color_ The low threshold color
- - Color for displaying values below the low threshold.
- - Long option: `--low`
- - Default: none (use the default foreground).
-- `-S` _boolean_ Display optional suffixes
- - When set to a true designator ("True", "Yes" or "On"), optional
- value suffixes such as the '%' symbol or optional units will be
- displayed.
- - Long option: `--suffix`
- - Default: False.
-- `-p` _number_ Percentages padding
- - Width, in number of digits, for quantities representing
- percentages. For instance `-p 3` means that all percentages
- in the monitor will be represented using 3 digits.
- - Long option: `--ppad`
- - Default value: 0 (don't pad)
-- `-d` _number_ Decimal digits
- - Number of digits after the decimal period to use in float values.
- - Long option: `--ddigits`
- - Default value: 0 (display only integer part)
-- `-m` _number_ Minimum field width
- - Minimum width, in number of characters, of the fields in the
- monitor template. Values whose printed representation is shorter
- than this value will be padded using the padding characters
- given by the `-c` option with the alignment specified by `-a`
- (see below).
- - Long option: `--minwidth`
- - Default: 0
-- `-M` _number_ Maximum field width
- - Maximum width, in number of characters, of the fields in the
- monitor template. Values whose printed representation is longer
- than this value will be truncated.
- - Long option: `--maxwidth`
- - Default: 0 (no maximum width)
-- `-w` _number_ Fixed field width
- - All fields will be set to this width, padding or truncating as
- needed.
- - Long option: `--width`
- - Default: 0 (variable width)
-- `-c` _string_
- - Characters used for padding. The characters of _string_ are used
- cyclically. E.g., with `-P +- -w 6`, a field with value "foo"
- will be represented as "+-+foo".
- - Long option: `--padchars`
- - Default value: " "
-- `-a` r|l Field alignment
- - Whether to use right (r) or left (l) alignment of field values
- when padding.
- - Long option: `--align`
- - Default value: r (padding to the left)
-- `-b` _string_ Bar background
- - Characters used, cyclically, to draw the background of bars.
- For instance, if you set this option to "·.", an empty bar will
- look like this: `·.·.·.·.·.`
- - Long option: `--bback`
- - Default value: ":"
-- `-f` _string_ Bar foreground
- - Characters used, cyclically, to draw the foreground of bars.
- - Long option: `--bfore`
- - Default value: "#"
-- `-W` _number_ Bar width
- - Total number of characters used to draw bars.
- - Long option: `--bwidth`
- - Default value: 10
-
-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
-- RefreshRate: number of tenths of second between re-runs of the
- command. A zero or negative rate means that the command will be
- executed only once.
-- 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.
-
-E.g.:
-
- Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "" 0
-
-can be used in the output template as `%uname%` (and xmobar will call
-_uname_ only once), while
-
- Run Com "date" ["+\"%a %b %_d %H:%M\""] "mydate" 600
-
-can be used in the output template as `%mydate%`
-
-## Other Plugins
-
-`StdinReader`
-
-- Aliases to StdinReader
-- Displays any text received by xmobar on its standard input.
-
-`Date Format Alias RefreshRate`
-
-- Format is a time format string, as accepted by the standard ISO C
- `strftime` function (or Haskell's `formatCalendarTime`).
-- Sample usage: `Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y <fc=#ee9a00>%H:%M:%S</fc>" "date" 10`
-
-`DateZone Format Locale Zone Alias RefreshRate`
-
-- Format is a time format string, as accepted by the standard ISO C
- `strftime` function (or Haskell's `formatCalendarTime`).
-- If Locale is "" the default locale of the system is used, otherwise the given
- locale. If there are more instances of DateZone, using "" as input for Locale
- is not recommended.
-- Zone is the name of the TimeZone. It is assumed that the tz database is stored
- in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. If "" is given as Zone, the default system time is
- used.
-- Sample usage:
- `Run DateZone "%a %H:%M:%S" "de_DE.UTF-8" "Europe/Vienna" "viennaTime" 10`
-
-`CommandReader "/path/to/program" Alias`
-
-- Runs the given program, and displays its standard output.
-
-`PipeReader "/path/to/pipe" Alias`
-
-- Reads its displayed output from the given pipe.
-
-`XMonadLog`
-
-- Aliases to XMonadLog
-- Displays information from xmonad's `_XMONAD_LOG`. You can set this
- property by using `xmonadPropLog` as your log hook in xmonad's
- configuration, as in the following example (more info [here]):
-
- main = do
- spawn "xmobar"
- xmonad $ defaultConfig {
- logHook = dynamicLogString defaultPP >>= xmonadPropLog
- }
- This plugin can be used as a sometimes more convenient alternative
- to `StdinReader`. For instance, it allows you to (re)start xmobar
- outside xmonad.
-
-[here]: http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad-contrib/XMonad-Hooks-DynamicLog.html
-
-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 `samples/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, assuming that
-you copied it to `src/Plugins`:
-
-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.
-
-Authors and credits
-===================
-
-Andrea Rossato originally designed and implemented xmobar up to
-version 0.11.1. Since then, it is maintained and developed by [Jose
-Antonio Ortega Ruiz](http://hacks-galore.org/jao/), with the help of
-the greater Haskell community.
-
-In particular, xmobar [incorporates patches] by Ben Boeckel, Roman
-Cheplyaka, John Goerzen, Juraj Hercek, Tomas Janousek, Spencer
-Janssen, Lennart Kolmodin, Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz, Dmitry
-Kurochkin, Svein Ove, Martin Perner, Jens Petersen, Petr Rockai,
-Andrew Sackville-West, Alexander Solovyov, Artem Tarasov, Sergei
-Trofimovich, Thomas Tuegel, Jan Vornberger, Daniel Wagner and Norbert
-Zeh.
-
-[incorporates patches]: http://www.ohloh.net/p/xmobar/contributors
-
-## Thanks
-
-__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...;-).
-
-__jao__:
-
-Thanks to Andrea for creating xmobar in the first place, and for
-giving me the chance to contribute.
-
-Useful links
-============
-
-- [Github page].
-- [Mailing list].
-- [xmobar's Ohloh page].
-
-- 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's Ohloh page]: https://www.ohloh.net/p/xmobar
-[this tutorial]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/X_window_programming_in_Haskell
-[sawflibs]: http://github.com/jaor/sawflibs
-
-License
-=======
-
-This software is released under a BSD-style license. See [LICENSE] for
-more details.
-
-Copyright &copy; 2007-2010 Andrea Rossato
-
-Copyright &copy; 2010-2011 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://i3wm.org/i3status/
-[i3status manual]: http://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html#_using_i3status_with_xmobar
-[iwlib]: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
-[hinotify]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hinotify/
-[libmpd]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/libmpd/
-[dbus-core]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/dbus-core
-[text]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text
-[sawfish]: http://sawfish.wikia.com/
-[utf8-string]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/utf8-string/
-[alsa-core]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/alsa-core
-[alsa-mixer]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/alsa-mixer
-[timezone-olson]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson
-[timezone-series]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-series