Ratpoison + dzen2 + conky-cli [SOLVED]

Hello,
I am currently trying to mix ratpoison up a little bit with the dzen2 statusbar. The bar appears and everything, no issues there, but as soon as I fire up a frame with rp it overlaps the bar! I figured that there should be some option for makin dzen2 always staying on top but I can't find anything regarding that feature(if it exists). Anyone with ideas?
Here is my .xinitrc: (don't mind the long sleep, that will be corrected sooner or later ;))
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 (sleep 15s && conky | dzen2 -e '' -h '16' -w '1980' -ta r -fg '#aaaaaa' -bg '#1a1a1a' -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' -p) &
4 exec ratpoison
/David
Last edited by dlind (2010-07-27 15:32:50)

splittercode wrote:
in .ratpoisonrc
padding left top right bottom
replace left, right, top, and bottom with the number of pixels to leave blank for your statusbar
for example, to leave 16px blank at top
'padding 0 16 0 0'
Thank you for the reply.
I have the value 'defpadding 0 0 0 0' in my .ratpoisonrc, changing the second value to 16 doesn't do anything though. I tampered with all of the values to see if it altered the frames in some way, but nothing happened.
New ideas? :)
/David

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`additionalKeys`
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((mod1Mask, xK_F2), spawn "gmrun")
As you can see I am running dzen straigth out of the xmonad config, the reason I need to do that is the status stuff for xmonad. And now I want to add conky stuff to it. The only way I found(or to honest a friend of mine sort of) was to add the line ppExtra which uses logcmd to run conky.
The solution was great exept, I wasn't able to adjust where I wanted the conky on my dzen bar it was just placed right beside the status stuff in the dzen since conky couldn't decide itself where to be. The solution on the wiki wount work for me since I have the status stuff on dzen.
So any suggestions?

I've spent quite some time doing the exactly same thing as you're trying to achieve (I believe). My dzen bar(s) look like this:
In order to achieve that I'm running two instances of dzen. One for the workspaces and title, and one for date/cpu load/ram etc. (which is sent directly from conky-cli). Both instances are started by xmonad using spawnPipe (configured in xmonad.hs.). I haven't added much comments to my xmonad.hs, but hopefully you'll figure it out
{- xmonad.hs -}
-- Imports --
-- main
import XMonad
import IO (Handle, hPutStrLn)
-- utils
import XMonad.Util.Run (spawnPipe)
-- hooks
import XMonad.Hooks.ManageDocks
import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog
-- layouts
import XMonad.Layout.NoBorders
-- Variables --
myNormalBGColor = "#2e3436"
myFocusedBGColor = "#414141"
myNormalFGColor = "#E0FFFF"
myFocusedFGColor = "#1994d1"
myUrgentFGColor = "#f57900"
myUrgentBGColor = "#2e3436"
mySeperatorColor = "#2e3436"
myVisibleBGColor = "#515151"
-- Remember to change to appropiate path
xmonadDir = "/home/<user>/.xmonad"
-- Main --
main = do
bar <- spawnPipe myWorkspaceBar
bar2 <- spawnPipe myDateBar
xmonad $ defaultConfig
{ manageHook = manageDocks <+> manageHook defaultConfig
, layoutHook = myLayoutHook
, logHook = dynamicLogWithPP $ myDzenPP bar
, workspaces = myWorkspaces
, terminal = myTerminal
, borderWidth = myBorderWidth
, normalBorderColor = myNormalBorderColor
, focusedBorderColor = myFocusedBorderColor
-- Terminal --
myTerminal = "urxvt"
-- Workspaces --
myWorkspaces = ["1:main", "2:misc", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"]
-- Looks --
-- borders
myBorderWidth = 1
myNormalBorderColor = "grey30"
myFocusedBorderColor = "#1994d1"
-- layoutHooks
myLayoutHook = avoidStruts (tiled ||| Mirror tiled ||| noBorders Full)
where
tiled = Tall 1 (3/100) (3/5)
-- DZEN bars --
myWorkspaceBar = "dzen2 -p -ta l -h 12 -w 840 -x 1024 -bg black -fn '-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'"
myDateBar = "conky | dzen2 -ta r -h 12 -w 840 -x 1864 -bg black -fn '-*-terminus-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'"
-- DZEN looks --
myDzenPP handle = defaultPP
myDzenPP handle = defaultPP
{ ppCurrent = wrap ("^fg(" ++ myFocusedFGColor ++ ")^bg(" ++ myFocusedBGColor ++ ")^p(2)^i(" ++ xmonadDir ++ "/dzen_bitmaps/has_win.xbm)") "^p(4)^fg()$
, ppUrgent = wrap ("^fg(" ++ myUrgentFGColor ++ ")^bg(" ++ myUrgentBGColor ++ ")^p(4)") "^p(4)^fg()^bg()"
, ppVisible = wrap ("^fg(" ++ myNormalFGColor ++ ")^bg(" ++ myNormalBGColor ++ ")^p(4)") "^p(4)^fg()^bg()"
, ppHiddenNoWindows = wrap ("^fg(" ++ myNormalFGColor ++ ")")"^fg()"
, ppHidden = wrap ("^fg(" ++ myNormalFGColor ++ ")^bg(" ++ myVisibleBGColor ++ ")^p(4)") "^p(4)^fg()^bg()"
, ppSep = ""
, ppTitle = dzenColor myNormalFGColor "" . wrap "< " " >"
, ppOutput = hPutStrLn handle
, ppLayout = dzenColor myFocusedFGColor "" .
(\x -> case x of
"Tall" -> "^p(4)^i(" ++ xmonadDir ++ "/dzen_bitmaps/tall.xbm)^p(4)"
"Mirror Tall" -> "^p(4)^i(" ++ xmonadDir ++ "/dzen_bitmaps/mtall.xbm)^p(4)"
"Full" -> "^p(4)^i(" ++ xmonadDir ++ "/dzen_bitmaps/full.xbm)^p(4)"
I addition to this you'll have to configure your ~/.conkyrc file, but this is done very easily.
Btw, to configure the position of the dzen bar and what's displayed in dzen, read the dzen2 man.
Last edited by sablabra (2008-12-09 19:11:57)

Conky and mailcheck

Hi all
I'm fetching my mails from Gmail with offlineimap.
All mails goes to /home/niels/Mail/INBOX
I would like to have conky showing me the amount of new mail.
background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
use_spacer no
mail_spool $MAIL
TEXT
${new_mails} Nye breve
But this doesn't work ??
I've set the maildir in my enviroment:
MAILPATH=/home/niels/Mail/INBOX/new/
With this I can see there are new mails, in my shell.
But it wont work with conky
I've tried:
${new_mails (/home/niels/Mail/INBOX/new)} Nye breve
and
${mails (/home/niels/Mail/INBOX/new)} Nye breve
But nothing seems to work !!
Anyone knows what should be done here ??
I am using Xnomad with conky-CLI/dzen !

Nope
It wont work
I have this in my .conkyrc:
background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
use_spacer no
mail_spool /home/niels/Mail/INBOX/new/
TEXT
${mails} Nye breve ^fg(#ff0000)${loadavg 1 2 3} ^fg()${time %A d.%d.%m.%y | uge %V |} ^fg(#00FF00)${time %T}
It outputs the same devastating result

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