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I discovered nice project https://github.com/travitch/taffybar recently. It's another statusbar like xmobar or dzen2 intended for using with xmonad. It integrates with the latter using dbus instead of stdin.
Anyone had successful experience installing and running it?
I installed taffybar with cabal (cabal install gtk2hs-buildtools taffybar). But I totally confused with dbus integration. I have dbus daemon in my rc.conf, but taffybar raises the error on start: Connection Error "connectSession: DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS is missing or invalid.". Than I tried to add eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax` to my .xinitrc (as suggested in installation instructions http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~travitch/taff … ybar.html), but it taffybar freezes on start. I hope someone more experienced will help me with it.

The solution was simple. I should just add dbus-launch at the bottom of the .xinirc:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch bash -c "taffybar & xmonad"
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