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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ _New features_ + - Icons support: it's now possible to insert bitmaps in the global + template (Edward O'Callaghan and Alexander Polakov). - New `TopP` and `BottomP` alignments, taking left and right paddings (thanks to Dmitry Malikov). @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ 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 is a minimalistic, mostly 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 +features, like dynamic color management, icons, output templates, and extensibility through plugins. This page documents xmobar 0.16 (see [release notes]). @@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ For the output template: - `<fc=#FF0000>string</fc>` will print `string` with `#FF0000` color (red). +- `<icon=/path/to/icon.xbm/>` will insert the given bitmap. + Other configuration options: `font` @@ -430,6 +432,13 @@ operating system to execute a program with the name found in the template. If the execution is not successful an error will be reported. +It's possible to insert in the global templates icon directives of the +form: + + <icon=/path/to/bitmap.xbm/> + +which will produce the expected result. + ## The `commands` Configuration Option The `commands` configuration option is a list of commands information @@ -446,7 +455,10 @@ 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. +swap monitor plugin, with default options, every second. And here's +an example of a template for the commands above using an icon: + + template="<icon=/home/jao/.xmobar/mem.xbm/><memory> <swap>" The only internal available command is `Com` (see below Executing External Commands). All other commands are provided by plugins. xmobar @@ -454,10 +466,8 @@ 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 +infrastructure. See below. ## System Monitor Plugins @@ -1262,10 +1272,10 @@ In particular, xmobar [incorporates patches] by Ben Boeckel, Roman Cheplyaka, Patrick Chilton, John Goerzen, Reto Hablützel, Juraj Hercek, Tomas Janousek, Spencer Janssen, Jochen Keil, Lennart Kolmodin, Krzysztof Kosciuszkiewicz, Dmitry Kurochkin, Dmitry Malikov, -Svein Ove, Martin Perner, Jens Petersen, Petr Rockai, Andrew -Sackville-West, Alexander Solovyov, John Soros, Artem Tarasov, Sergei -Trofimovich, Thomas Tuegel, Jan Vornberger, Daniel Wagner and Norbert -Zeh. +Edward O'Callaghan, Svein Ove, Martin Perner, Jens Petersen, Alexander +Polakov, Petr Rockai, Andrew Sackville-West, Alexander Solovyov, John +Soros, Artem Tarasov, Sergei Trofimovich, Thomas Tuegel, Jan +Vornberger, Daniel Wagner and Norbert Zeh. [incorporates patches]: http://www.ohloh.net/p/xmobar/contributors |