xmobar1

Usage

Overview

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 (http://tuomov.iki.fi/software/) status bar, and supports similar features, like dynamic color management, output templates, and extensibility through plugins.

This page documents xmobar 0.16.

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.

The configuration file is searched for in the following locations, in order:

The first configuration file found will be used. See /usr/share/doc/xmobar/examples for sample configuration files.

Usage:

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 commands --add-commands=commands Add commands to be executed after those
of the config file
-x screen --screen=screen On which X screen number to start
Mail bug reports and suggestions to <[email protected]>

Configuration

For full details of the available configuration options, please refer to /usr/share/doc/xmobar/readme.org.gz.