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% xmobar - A Minimalistic Text Based Status Bar
-% Andrea Rossato, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
About
=====
@@ -15,16 +14,24 @@ extensibility through plugins.
This page documents xmobar 0.14 (see [release notes]).
[This is a screen shot] of Andrea's desktop with [xmonad] and xmobar.
-[This] is xmobar running under [sawfish], with antialiased fonts. And
-[this one] is my desktop with [xmonad] and two instances of xmobar.
+[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 is a screen shot]: http://haskell.org/sitewiki/images/a/ae/Arossato-config.png
-[This]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/xmobar-sawfish.png
+[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
============
@@ -237,26 +244,13 @@ Other configuration options:
`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
+### Running xmobar with 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]"
+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
@@ -1028,14 +1022,6 @@ To remove the system monitor plugin:
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
=======
@@ -1068,7 +1054,6 @@ Useful links
- [Github page].
- [Mailing list].
- [xmobar's Ohloh page].
-- 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.
@@ -1077,8 +1062,6 @@ Useful links
in [sawfish].
[xmobar's Ohloh page]: https://www.ohloh.net/p/xmobar
-[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
@@ -1106,7 +1089,8 @@ Copyright © 2010-2011 Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
[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/
+[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/