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where h = hot

Hello! I was curious if someone could help me debug my xmobar configuration? I'm running into an issue where the bar intermittently appears behind open windows. ~/.xsession-errors is empty. I see some 7 year old SO posts saying it was a bug in the code but imagine that isn't relevant https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13867197/how-do-i-prevent-xmobar-from-hiding-behind-other-xmonad-windows . Xmonad config is as follows:

        -- inspired by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad#More_configurable

        import XMonad
        import XMonad.Config
        import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

        -- The main function.
        main = xmonad =<< statusBar myBar myPP toggleStrutsKey myConfig

        -- Command to launch the bar.
        myBar = "xmobar"

        -- Custom PP, configure it as you like. It determines what is being written to the bar.
        myPP = xmobarPP { ppCurrent = xmobarColor "#429942" "" . wrap "<" ">" }

        -- Key binding to toggle the gap for the bar.
        toggleStrutsKey XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask} = (modMask, xK_b)

        -- Main configuration, override the defaults to your liking.
        myConfig = def
               { terminal = "terminator"
               , modMask = mod4Mask }

One note that might be relevant is when the issue happens the bar becomes unresponsive to the the shortcut I defined. but things link the time and CPU usage continue to update which I can see when no windows are open on that desktop.

Hello! I was curious if someone could help me debug my xmobar configuration? I'm running into an issue where the bar intermittently appears behind open windows. ~/.xsession-errors is empty. I see some 7 year old SO posts saying it was a bug in the code but imagine that isn't relevant https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13867197/how-do-i-prevent-xmobar-from-hiding-behind-other-xmonad-windows . Xmonad config is as follows:

        -- inspired by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmonad#More_configurable

        import XMonad
        import XMonad.Config
        import XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog

        -- The main function.
        main = xmonad =<< statusBar myBar myPP toggleStrutsKey myConfig

        -- Command to launch the bar.
        myBar = "xmobar"

        -- Custom PP, configure it as you like. It determines what is being written to the bar.
        myPP = xmobarPP { ppCurrent = xmobarColor "#429942" "" . wrap "<" ">" }

        -- Key binding to toggle the gap for the bar.
        toggleStrutsKey XConfig {XMonad.modMask = modMask} = (modMask, xK_b)

        -- Main configuration, override the defaults to your liking.
        myConfig = def
               { terminal = "terminator"
               , modMask = mod4Mask }

One note that might be relevant is when the issue happens the bar becomes unresponsive to the the shortcut I defined. but things link the time and CPU usage continue to update which I can see when no windows are open on that desktop.

I see the following message appearing in my journalctl:

xmonad[3135]: <file descriptor: 4>: commitBuffer: resource vanished (Broken pipe

With xmobar, if your logHook is writing to its stdin via ppOutput = hPutStrLn foo, make sure the .xmobarrc commands include a Run StdinReader line, and the template includes %StdinReader%.

I think this is a likely source of all the issues I've been having and makes sense why I feel like everytime I get in the zone with work everything seems to break haha.