xmobarrc

-- xmobar configuration file 
--
-- Mess with this file to change the appearance of the contents of the
-- status bar which are not directly controlled by xmonad. You can see your
-- changes immediately by recompiling xmonad using "super-q".
-- 
-- There's a lot you can do here. Refer to "man xmobar". 
-- 
-- Author: David Brewer
-- Repository: https://github.com/davidbrewer/xmonad-ubuntu-conf


Config { 
  -- Set font and default foreground/background colors. Note that
  -- the height of xmobar is controlled by the font you use.
  font = "xft:Ubuntu Mono-18",
  bgColor = "black",
  fgColor = "grey",

  -- Position is top left, taking up 94% of screen.
  -- You are likely to have to tweak the width here based on the width
  -- of your screen to make it play nicely with stalonetray, which we
  -- want to be taking up the remainer of the space on the right side
  -- of your screen.
  position = TopW L 94, 

  -- list of commands which gather information about your system for
  -- presentation in the bar. 
  commands = [ 
    -- Gather and format CPU usage information. 
    -- If it's above 50%, we consider it high usage and make it red.  
    Run Cpu [
      "-H","50",
      "--high","red"
    ] 10,

    -- Gather and format memory usage information
    Run Memory [
      "-t","Mem: <usedratio>%"
    ] 10,

    -- Date formatting
    Run Date "%a %b %_d %l:%M" "date" 10,

    -- Battery information. This is likely to require some customization
    -- based upon your specific hardware. Or, for a desktop you may want
    -- to just remove this section entirely.
    Run Battery [
      "-t", "<acstatus>: <left>%", 
      "--", 
      "-O", "AC",
      "-o", "Bat",
      "-h", "green",
      "-l", "red"
    ] 10,

    -- To get volume information, we run a custom bash script.
    -- This is because the built-in volume support in xmobar is disabled
    -- in Debian and derivatives like Ubuntu. 
    Run Com "/bin/bash" ["-c", "~/.xmonad/get-volume"] "myvolume" 10,

    -- This line tells xmobar to read input from stdin. That's how we
    -- get the information that xmonad is sending it for display.
    Run StdinReader
   ],

   -- Separator character used to wrape variables in the xmobar template 
   sepChar = "%",

   -- Alignment separater characer used in the xmobar template. Everything
   -- before this will be aligned left, everything after aligned right.
   alignSep = "}{",

   -- Overall template for the layout of the xmobar contents. Note that
   -- space is significant and can be used to add padding.
   template = "%StdinReader% }{ %battery% | %cpu% | %memory% | Vol: %myvolume%    <fc=#e6744c>%date%</fc>     "
}