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geommer
i3 startup issues
If I use i3 to automatically start yabar with exec --no-startup-id yabar then something goes wrong. I can't really describe it so I attached a screenshot of it. If I start yabar from the console it works just fine. In this setup I am drawing yabar on an external monitor.
From this picture I assume the issue is that "Using monitor HDMI-1" is being displayed in some blocks, is this correct?
And also a segfault? What's the difference between this and #143?
Hahaha, that is actually kind of amazing.
I have a vague suspicion where this is coming from.
ya_setup_bar writes "Using monitor xyz" to STDOUT with printf("Using monitor") - which is actually nothing else than file descriptor number 1 (STDIN is 0, STDOUT is 1 and STDERR is 2). But how does this get displayed in the blocks?
Yabar internally uses a pipes mechanism to stream data between the different threads. I'm guessing i3 did not allocate STDIN, STDOUT and/or STDERR for yabar, and therefore file descriptor 1 gets used for a pipe, which is then used for the blocks instead of console output.
@NBonaparte Yes, I have set HDMI-1 as the monitor for Yabar to display. The segfault is not related to this issue. Just happened to be in the screenshot (confusingly).
If you change printf("Using monitor %s\n", m); on line 251 of src/ya_parse.c to fprintf(stderr, "Using monitor %s\n", m); does this fix it?
That fixes it somewhat. Now it looks like this 
I haven't set any option for it to be transparent anywhere.
Sure. It is probably not an example of beauty either.
#Hi!, this config is not intended to become an example of beauty in yabar.
#
#It is just intended to show an example (specifically an example config that uses internal blocks) of what you can do using yabar.
#You are more than welcomed to send me (using a pull request maybe) your better colors and I will merge it.
bar-list = ["bar1"]
bar1:{
font: "Droid Sans, FontAwesome Bold 10";
block-list: ["ya_date", "ya_title", "ya_wtts2", "ya_brightness", "ya_volume", "ya_music_backward","ya_music_toggle", "ya_music_forward", "ya_music_like", "ya_cpu", "ya_mem", "ya_wifi", "ya_battery", "ya_dropbox", "ya_power"];
position: "top";
height: 28; #height;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
monitor: "HDMI-1 eDP-1";
underline-size: 2;
overline-size: 2;
slack-size: 3;
ya_title: {
exec: "YABAR_TITLE";
fixed-size: 300;
align: "left";
background-color-rgb:0x0;
# overline-color-rgb:0x2679DB
}
ya_dropbox: {
exec: "bash ~/.scripts/dropbox.sh"
fixed-size: 50;
align: "right"
type: "periodic"
underline-color-rgb: 0xD95B43;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
interval: 5;
}
ya_date:{
exec: "YABAR_DATE";
align: "middle";
fixed-size: 160;
interval: 1;
#background-color-rgb:0x279DBD;
underline-color-rgb:0xF92672;
internal-prefix: " ";
internal-option1: "%a %d %b, %I:%M";
background-color-rgb:0x0;
#variable-size: true;
}
ya_ws: {
exec: "YABAR_WORKSPACE";
align: "left";
fixed-size: 30;
type: "periodic";
interval: 0.2;
internal-option1: " 5 6 7 8 9";
#background-color-rgb:0xAF89D9;
underline-color-rgb:0x2679DB;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
# command-button1: "sh ~/scripts/i3_workspaces.sh";
}
ya_wifi: {
exec: "bash /home/christoph/.scripts/wifi.sh";
# exec: "YABAR_WIFI";
# internal-option: "wlp3s0";
align: "right";
# fixed-size: 180;
fixed-size: 150;
interval: 1;
type:"periodic"
command-button1: "nm-applet"
background-color-rgb:0x0;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb: 0xAD508A;
}
ya_ws2: {
exec: "python3 /home/christoph/.scripts/i3ws.py";
align: "left";
fixed-size: 130;
type: "periodic";
interval: 1;
variable-size: true;
#internal-option1: " VI VII VIII IX";
#background-color-rgb:0xAF89D9;
underline-color-rgb:0x2679DB;
#exec: "~/test.sh";
#pango-markup: true;
#command-button1: "sh ~/scripts/workspace.sh";
}
ya_volume:{
exec:"sh /home/christoph/.scripts/volume.sh";
align: "right";
fixed-size: 60;
type: "periodic"
interval: 1;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb:0x66D9EF;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
command-button1: "amixer -D pulse sset Master toggle"
command-button4: "amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%+";
command-button5: "amixer -D pulse sset Master 5%-";
}
ya_music_forward:{
exec:"sh /home/christoph/.scripts/forward.sh";
align: "left";
type: "periodic";
fixed-size: 30;
interval: 1;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb:0x66D9EF;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
command-button1: "nuvolaplayer3ctl action next-song"
}
ya_music_like:{
exec:"sh /home/christoph/.scripts/heart.sh";
align: "left";
type: "periodic";
fixed-size: 30;
interval: 1;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb:0x66D9EF;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
command-button1: "nuvolaplayer3ctl action thumbs-up"
}
ya_music_backward:{
exec:"sh /home/christoph/.scripts/backward.sh";
align: "left";
type: "periodic";
fixed-size: 30;
interval: 1;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb:0x66D9EF;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
command-button1: "nuvolaplayer3ctl action prev-song"
}
ya_music_toggle:{
exec:"bash /home/christoph/.scripts/toggle.sh";
align: "left";
type: "periodic";
fixed-size: 30;
interval: 1;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb:0x66D9EF;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
command-button1: "nuvolaplayer3ctl action toggle-play"
}
ya_brightness: {
exec:"sh /home/christoph/.scripts/brightness.sh";
align: "right";
fixed-size: 60;
type: "periodic"
interval: 1;
# background-color-rgb: 0x343D46;
underline-color-rgb:0x66D9EF;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
command-button4: "xbacklight -inc 10";
command-button5: "xbacklight -dec 10";
}
ya_uptime:{
exec: "YABAR_UPTIME";
align: "right";
fixed-size: 70;
interval: 1;
#background-color-rgb:0x96B49C;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
underline-color-rgb:0xF8CA00;
internal-prefix: " ";
#internal-spacing: true;
}
ya_mem:{
exec: "YABAR_MEMORY";
align: "right";
fixed-size: 70;
interval: 1;
#background-color-rgb:0x45ADA8;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
underline-color-rgb:0xFA6900;
internal-prefix: " ";
#internal-spacing: true;
}
ya_cpu: {
exec: "YABAR_CPU";
align: "right";
fixed-size: 75;
interval: 1;
internal-prefix: " ";
internal-suffix: "%";
background-color-rgb:0x0;
#background-color-rgb:0x98D9B6;
underline-color-rgb:0xE97F02;
#internal-spacing: true;
}
ya_disk: {
exec: "YABAR_DISKIO";
align: "right";
fixed-size: 110;
interval: 1;
internal-prefix: " ";
internal-option1: "sda"; #Get NAME from /sys/class/block/NAME/stat
internal-option2: " "; #Use characters(usually utf characters as shown) to be placed before down/up data, separated by a space
background-color-rgb:0x0;
#background-color-rgb:0x49708A;
underline-color-rgb:0xECD078;
#internal-spacing: true;
}
ya_mpd: {
exec: "mpc";
type: "periodic";
interval: 1;
align: "left";
underline-color-rgb: 0xAD508A;
fixed-size: 100;
variable-size: true;
}
ya_battery: {
exec: "sh ~/.scripts/battery_indicator.sh";
align: "right";
type: "periodic";
underline-color-rgb: 0xAD508A;
background-color-rgb:0x0;
}
ya_power: {
exec: "echo ";
fixed-size: 15;
type: "periodic";
interval: 1;
align: "right";
underline-color-rgb: 0xAD508A;
command-button1: "sh ~/.scripts/shutdown_wrapper.sh";
background-color-rgb:0x0;
}
ya_gap1: {
exec: "echo";
fixed-size: 12;
type: "periodic";
interval: 1;
align: "left";
background-color-argb:0x0;
}
ya_gap2: {
exec: "echo";
fixed-size: 12;
type: "periodic";
interval: 1;
align: "right";
background-color-argb:0x0;
}
}
Are you running compton? I was able to reproduce this when I executed compton after yabar in the config. Try running yabar after starting compton if it isn't in this order already.