## Version 0.33 (February, 2020)
_New features_
- New template parameter `<weather>` for the `Weather` plugin, potentially
displaying specific weather conditions that are occurring near the
station (thanks to *slotThe*).
- New option `--weathers`, for `Weather` to display a default string in
case the `weather` field is not reported (thanks to *slotThe*).
- New template parameter `<volumestatus>` for the `Volume` plugin, combining
the effects of `<volume>` and `<status>`. This will show the volume
(possibly prefixed by `onString` or a percentage-based string) if and only
if the volume is not muted. Otherwise it will show the
`offString` (thanks to *slotThe*).
- `Battery` and `BatteryN` now support FreeBSD (thanks to Dhananjay
Balan).
- New option `--useManager` for `Weather` and `UVMeter` to decide whether to
use one single manager per monitor for managing network connections or
create a new one every time a connection is made.
- New more efficient time coalescing strategy for monitor updates,
available with the threaded runtime: use the `with_threaded` flag
to enable it (see #410; thanks to Tomáš Janoušek).
- `Wireless` supports current nl80211 API on Linux now, old Wext ioctls still
available as compile-time option (thanks to Paul Fertser).
## Version 0.32 (December, 2019)
_New features_
- New options `--host` and `--port` for `MPD` monitor.
- New plugin `MailX` extending `Mail` with colors and prefix/suffix.
- New options `--lows`, `--mediums`, and `--highs` for `Battery`
to display an additional string depending on battery level (thanks
to *slotThe*).
- New options `-L` and `-H` for `Volume` to set low and high volume
levels, as well as `-l`, `-m`, and `-h` to display an additional
string depending on current volume level (thanks to *slotThe*).
- New option `-P` in `Battery` to add a `%` symbol to `<left>`.
- New option `--devices` in `DynNetwork` to select what interfaces
to monitor (thanks to *vindex10*).
- DateZone plugin now also checks TZDIR (thanks to Emmanuel Rosa).
_Bug fixes_
- `Kbd` plugin: ignore "terminate" layout token (thanks to Greg
Steuck).
- Fixed compilation with GHC 8.8.x (thanks to Vanessa McHale).
- Avoid creating `~/.xmobar` ([issue #405]).
[issue #405]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/405
## Version 0.31 (October, 2019)
_New features_
- New option `--contiguous-icons` for `MultiCpu` to draw icons
without padding (see [issue #388]).
- New version of libmpd (0.9.0.10), thanks to John Tyree
[issue #388]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/388
## Version 0.30 (August, 2019)
_New features_
- New monitor `MultiCoreTemp`, thanks to Felix Springer.
- `DiskIO`: Additional template variables for absolute number of
bytes rather than speeds (see [issue #390]).
- `WeatherX`: An extension to the `Weather` monitor allowing the
spefication of custom strings or icons for sky conditions.
- The battery monitors accept the new arguments `-a` and `-A` to
specify a system command executed if battery left goes beyond a
given threshold.
[issue #390]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/390
## Version 0.29.5 (March, 2019)
_Bug fixes_
- Honour command line flags when starting xmobar without any
configuration file (issue #375).
- `Alsa` plugin: restart `alsactl` if it quits, e.g. because of a
sleep/awake cycle (issue #376).
- `Weather` using the new HTTPS URL, which requires http-conduit as
a dependency (issue #378).
- `MarqueePipeReader` exported at the API level (issue #381).
## Version 0.29.4 (December, 2018)
Upgrade to alsa-mixer 0.3.0. See issues #372 and #373.
## Version 0.29.3 (December, 2018)
_Bug fixes_
- Upper bound for alsa_mixer (see [issue #372])
[issue #372]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/372
## Version 0.29.2 (December, 2018)
_Bug fixes_
- Work as usual with .xmobarrc (see [issue #371]).
[issue #371]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/371
## Version 0.29.1 (December, 2018)
_Bug fixes_
- Honour command line flags (fixes [issue #370]).
- Expose Cmd and CmdX in Xmobar interface.
[issue #370]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/370
## Version 0.29 (December, 2018)
_New features_
- New `Alsa` monitor for volume display that doesn't use polling, by
Daniel Schüssler.
- `ThermalZone` retries reading missing files, thanks to Reed Koser.
- `TopProc` ignores kernel threads (see also [issue #369]).
- `Wireless` simple autodetection of wirless interface name (if set
to "").
- Experimental support for using xmobar as a library, so that
configurations are in fact Haskell programs a la Xmonad (beta
stage, with help from Pavan Rikhi). Traditional config files are
still (and will continue to be) supported.
_Bug fixes_
- Correctly parsing configuration options `mwClass` and `wmName`.
[issue #369]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/369
## Version 0.28.1 (October, 2018)
Dependencies updated to work with GHC 8.6, avoiding [issue #354].
[issue #354]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/354
## Version 0.28 (August, 2018)
_New features_
- New `ComX`, which runs a command with custom exit error message.
_Bug fixes_
- hinotify version upgraded ([issue #356])
[issue #356]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/356
## Version 0.27 (July, 2018)
_New features_
- Dropped support for GHC 7.x. See [issue #352].
- New configuration option, `textOffsets` to specify separate
vertical offsets for each of the fonts in `additionalFonts`. See
[issue #311].
_Bug fixes_
- Use the maximum width options `-T` and `-E` correctly when a
monitor subtemplate contains font and color tags.
[issue #311]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/311
[issue #352]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/352
## Version 0.26 (April, 2018)
_New features_
- New options to specify the ellipsis string for fields (`-e`) and
total width (`-E`), thanks to Olivier Schneider.
- `MultiCpu`: New option to specify fallback icon paths
(`--fallback-icon-pattern`), thanks to Reed Koser.
_Bug fixes_
- `CpuFreq` monitors honours `-d` (number of digits) if no suffix is
given (cf. [issue #335]).
- Race condition in network monitor fixed ([issue #347]).
- Limiting dbus supported version (see [issue #346]).
[issue #335]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/335
[issue #346]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/346
[issue #347]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/347
## Version 0.25 (February, 2018)
_New features_
- The X11 properties `WM_NAME` and `WM_CLASS` for xmobar windows can
be setup in either the configuration file (`wmName` and `wmClass`)
or using the new flags `-n` adn `-w` (see [issue #323]).
- New flag `with_weather`, to build sans `Weather` monitor.
_Bug fixes_
- Honouring -x in MPris monitor ([issue #325])
[issue #323]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/323
[issue #325]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/325
## Version 0.24.5 (May, 2017)
_Bug fixes_
- Fix for vertical bars ([issue #303])
[issue #303]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/303
## Version 0.24.4 (April, 2017)
_Infrastructure_
- Whe have now an active [Travis CI setup].
[Travis CI setup]: https://travis-ci.org/jaor/xmobar
_Bug fixes_
- Reduce wakeups rate via rtsopts V0 (with new flag with_rtsopts to
disable it) (see [issue #89]).
- Fix Net monitor for lage uptimes and bytecounts (Tomas Janoušek).
- Fix MultiCpu monitor for large uptimes (Zev Weiss).
- Fix compilation when XMP is disabled (Sergi Trofimovich).
- Better fatal error messages (Michael Bishop).
- More paths to read from in CoreTemp (see [issue #291]).
[issue #291]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/291
## Version 0.24.3 (Sep 5, 2016)
_Bug fixes_
- Battery monitor: fixes for cases where status is not consistently
reported by the kernel (see [issue #271]).
[issue #271]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/271
## Version 0.24.2 (Aug 8, 2016)
_Bug fixes_
- New Weather plugin URL (see [issue #270]).
[issue #270]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/270
## Version 0.24.1 (Jul 28, 2016)
_Bug fixes_
- Restoring compatibility with GHC 7.6, (see [issue #269]).
[issue #269]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/269
## Version 0.24 (Jul 26, 2016)
_New features_
- Use the new compilation flag `with_conduit` to compile an
implemetation of the `Weather` plugin that will work behind
proxies, by Dragos Boca.
- New command line argument (`-p`) to specify xmobar's position, by
Valentin Shirokov.
- Wind speed in Km/h and m/s for the `Weather` plugin, by Michael
Knabe.
- `UVMeter`, a new optional plugin showing UV data for Australian
users, by Roman Joost.
- New template parameter `<date>` for the `MPD` plugin (by Bruno
Heridet)
- New monitor argument `-T` to specify the maximum total width of
the monitor text.
- New $VAR parameter syntax for using env vars in pipe monitors, by
Will Song (see [issue #268]).
_Bug fixes_
- The `Volume` plugin now supports capture devices (Antoine Eiche).
- The `MPD` plugin will now automatically update on options changes
(Ben Boeckel).
- The `Battery` plugin does now a better job at tracking AC status
and times (see [issue #231]).
- `PipeReader` was polling too often (thanks to zlbruce).
- The `MPris` monitor now honours field width and padding optons
(-M, -w, etc.).
- `Batt`: sensible thresholds for high/low power consumption (see
[issue #265]).
[issue #231]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/225
[issue #265]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/225
[issue #268]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/268
## Version 0.23.1 (Apr 14, 2015)
_Bug fixes_
- Vertical alignment for icons, [issue #216]
- Improvements to vertical text alignment, with many thanks to Jan
Palus (see ongoing discussion in [issue #221]).
- Better error handling in `Volume` monitor, [issue #215]
- Compilation with ghc 7.8 and 7.10 (thanks to Edward Tjörnhammar,
see [issue #225]).
[issue #225]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/225
[issue #221]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/221
[issue #216]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/216
[issue #215]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/215
## Version 0.23 (Mar 8, 2015)
_New features_
- Xmobar can now use a (semi)transparent background: set it with the
new configuration option `alpha` (thanks to Edward Z. Yang, see
[issue #114]).
- Multiple fonts available by means of the new configuration
parameter `additionalFonts` and the template markers
`<fn=1>...</fn>`, by Markus Scherer.
- New variables in `Mem` monitor for available memory as reported by
Linux 3.14 and newer, by Samuli Thomasson.
- New configuration parameters `textOffset` and `iconOffset` (see
discussion in [issue #171] and [issue #201]).
- New template variable `flags` in `MPD` monitor, by Duncan Burke.
[issue #171]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/171
[issue #201]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/201
[issue #114]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/114
_Bug fixes_
- We honour the `-S` (show suffix) monitor flag in `CpuFreq`.
- Better `Weather` parsing of wind direction, by Dino Morelli (see
[pull #212]).
[pull #212]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/212
## Version 0.22.1 (Oct 11, 2014)
_Bug fixes_
- Fix compilation in systems that don't need mtl newer than the one
shipped with GHC.
## Version 0.22 (Oct 9, 2014)
_New features_
- New `MarqueePipeReader` plugin by Reto Hablützel.
- `Network` monitor has now adaptive units (`-S` is used now to
switch them on), by Axel Angel.
- `Weather` now offers `dewPointC` and `dewPointF` instead of
`dewPoint`, and the new `windCardinal`, `windAzimuth`, `windMph`
and `windKnots` variables, by Tony Morris.
- Strings in the configuration file can now span multiple lines
using Haskell-style multiline script, thanks to dunric
- Icons can now be also xpm files (if xmobar is compiled with
`with_xpm`), thanks to Alexander Shabalin.
- New `borderWidth` option to set xmobar's boder width, thanks to
Travis Staton.
- Support for multiple Xft fonts, thanks to Phil Xiaojun Hu and
Cedric staub (see [pull request #196]).
- Icon patterns for several monitors, that allow you to specify a
collection of icons to use for successive integer variable values,
thanks to Alexander Shabalin (see [pull request #192] and the
documentation for details).
- Upgrade to libmpd 0.9.
_Bug fixes_
- Much more efficient implementation of the `Locks` plugin, thanks
to Anton Vorontsov (see [pull request #195]).
- Not colorizing total disk size in `DiskU` ([issue #189]).
- Avoiding zombies on click actions, thanks to Phil Xiaojun Hu
([issue #181]).
[issue #181]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/181
[issue #189]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/189
[pull request #192]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/192
[pull request #195]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/195
[pull request #196]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/pull/196
## Version 0.21 (Jul 1, 2014)
_New features_
- Vertical bar indicators using unicode available for most monitors,
by Eric Mrak.
- `CoreTemp`: support for linux 3.15, by Tomáš Janoušek.
- New `CatInt` monitor, displaying integer values read from a file,
by Nathaniel Wesley Filardo.
- New `<raw>` tag for safer input parsing, also by Nathaniel.
- New `UnsafeXMonadLog` monitor (by Eric Mrak) and their xproperty
counterparts, `UnsafeXPropertyLog` and `UnsafeNamedXPropertyLog`.
_Bug fixes_
- `Network` now reports status for ppp connections (see
[issue #89]).
- Fix for very long running `Cpu` monitors, by Robert J Macomber.
[issue #89]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/89
## Version 0.20.1 (March 13, 2014)
_New features_
- Back to picking by default the first available screen, with a new
configuration option, `pickBroadest`, for choosing the broadest
(see [issue #158]).
[issue #158]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/158
## Version 0.20 (March 10, 2014)
_New features_
- Mouse actions now support multiple buttons, by Marcin Mikołajczyk.
- Non supported monitors are ignored in configuration files (see
[issue #139]), by Adam Vogt.
_Bug fixes_
- `Disk` monitor now ignores non-existent devices (Reto Hablützel).
- `Weather` is now non-blocking and doesn't use curl (Ben Boeckel).
- Fix for `Memory` monitor in 3.14 kernels (Ben Boeckel).
- Fix for infinite loops in `AutoMPD` ([issue #76], [issue #111]).
- More robust AC readings in `BatteryP`.
- Fix for `Top` monitor's readings for processes whose name contains
blanks.
- Fixes for geometry computation on multihead (Dmitry Malikov).
- Fixes for missing XDG configuration (Thiago Negri and James McCoy,
see [issue #133]).
- Compatibility with latest `directory` (1.2.0.2).
[issue #76]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/76
[issue #111]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/111
[issue #133]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/133
[issue #139]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/133
## Version 0.19 (October 27, 2013)
As of this release, the old bug tracker at Google code is deprecated.
Please use [Github's tracker] for new bugs.
_New features_
- New monitor `BatteryN`, a variant of `BatteryP` that lets you
specify the name of the monitor in the template.
- Support for configuration file living in `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` (see
[github #99]).
- `Com` uses safer `runInteractiveProcess` instead of spawning a
shell (David McLean). If you're using shell expansion in your
`Com` (e.g. "~/bin/script") here's a workaround: `Run Com
"/bin/bash" ["-c", "~/bin/script"]` (cf. [github #127]).
- New plugin `UnsafeStdinReader` that allows actions from stdin.
Now it's possible to have clickable workspaces!
(Thiago Negri, see [github #125]).
- New monitor configuration option (`-x` or `--nastring`) that allows
specifying what string to display when a monitor is not available
(defaulting to "N/A"). Cf. [github #119].
_Bug fixes_
- Using the width options `-w`, `-m` and `-M` in battery monitors
watts display ([github #118]).
- Using the `-d` option in `CoreTemp` ([github #115])
- Fix for systems not supporting PCRE regular expressions: we use
now BCEs, so regex-compat should be enough everywhere (see
[github #117]).
- Weather monitor: support for stations without name (Sergei
Trofimovich, [issue #65]).
[Github's tracker]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues
[github #99]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/115
[github #115]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/115
[github #117]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/117
[github #125]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/125
[issue #65]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=65
[github #118]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/118
[github #119]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/119
[github #127]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/127
## Version 0.18 (June 5, 2013)
_New features_
- All extra argument monitors taking a string (e.g. `-O` for
`BatteryP`) accept now template variables (see [github #109] and
[#110]). Thanks to Todd Lunter.
- New battery monitor extra argument, `-i`, for the idle status.
_Bug fixes_
- Safer standard input parsing, avoiding <action> injections.
[github #109]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/109
[#110]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/110
## Version 0.17 (May 5, 2013)
_New features_
- Icons support: it's now possible to insert bitmaps in the template
(Edward O'Callaghan, Alexander Polakov and Tomáš Janoušek).
- Initial support for reacting to mouse clicks (Alexander Polakov).
- New `TopP` and `BottomP` alignments, taking left and right
paddings (thanks to Dmitry Malikov).
- New `<freeratio>` field for memory monitor (Peter Simons).
- New `allDesktops` and `overrideRedirect` configuration options,
providing dock behaviour in tiling WMs (when set to True and False
respectively). Cf. discussion at [github #105].
- Experimental `-d` (start as a dock) option, may address [github #67]
in some window managers.
_Bug fixes_
- Partial (as reports go) fix for [github #77].
- Safer volume plugin (Dmitry Malikov).
- Battery percentage capped at 100% (RJ Regenold).
[github #67]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/67
[github #77]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/77
[github #105]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/105
## Version 0.16 (Dec 3, 2012)
_New features_
- New monitor `AutoMPD`, which uses asynchronous events to display
MPD status (thanks to Ben Boeckel).
- New monitor `BufferedPipeReader` displaying data from multiple
pipes (thanks to Jochen Keil).
- New monitor `DynNetwork`, which detects the active interface
automatically, by Reto Hablützel
- New monitor, `Locks`, displaying the status of lock keys, by
Patrick Chilton.
- Extension for DBUS signal handling (Jochen Keil)
- Hide/Reveal: one can send signals to xmobar and make it (un)hide
itself (Jochen again).
- `PipeReader`'s default text is now configurable, by Reto Hablützel.
- Dependencies updated to latest mtl and libmpd (thanks to Sergei
Trofimovich).
- Dependencies on the deprecated dbus-core removed in favour of
dbus 0.10 (thanks to Jochen Keil).
- MPris2 now includes genre and composer among its fields.
_Bug fixes_
- `DiskIO` now can report overall activity in all partitions of a device
which is not mounted itself (e.g., sda when sda1, sda3, etc. are
the mounted partitions). Thanks to John Soros. See [github #73].
- `DiskU`, the disk usage monitor, works again correctly on Linux,
instead of randomly crashing every now and then, and reporting
wrong used size.
- When using antialiased fonts, we were causing a memory leak in the
X server by repeatedly allocating colors that, apparently, the
server doesn't know how to get rid of (even when told so!). We're
caching them now and X server memory doesn't grow.
- Compilation errors and warnings with GHC 7.6 removed (thanks to
Raghavendra D Prabhu for his reports in [github #71]).
_Known problems_
Some users have reported problems with xmobar compiled with GHC 7.6 in
ArchLinux: see [github #78] and pointers therein. Please, send
reports of any problems or successes in that regard so that we can fix
any remaining issues. Thanks!
[github #71]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/71
[github #73]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/73
[github #78]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/78
## Version 0.15 (June 4, 2012)
_Incompatible changes_
- `Batt` monitor no longer uses `-c` to specify the charge file: it
should figure things out by itself (cf. [issue 69]).
_New features_
- New command line option, `-C`, that allows *adding* commands to
those specified in the configuration file (Ben Boeckel).
- Dependency on GHC's threaded runtime has been eliminated.
- New MPRIS (versions 1 and 2) monitor, by Artem Tarasov.
- New monitor option `-d` to specify the number of decimal places to
display for float numbers. Defaults to 0. See [issue 58].
- New compilation option `--with_threaded`, to use GHC's threaded
runtime to compile xmobar. Disabled by default (cf. discussion in
[github #36]).
_Bug fixes_
- Stricter build dependencies versioning in cabal file.
- [issue 56] vertical alignment of text improved.
- [issue 64] display of `watts` in `Batt` monitor fixed.
- [issue 69] miscellaneous battery reporting issues.
- [issue 67] compilation in DragonFly.
- DiskIO works also when device path in mtab are symbolic links
to the real device file.
- Wireless monitor honours padding settings for ESSID names.
- CoreTemp monitor fixed for newer kernels ([github #38]).
[issue 56]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=56
[issue 58]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=58
[issue 64]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=64
[issue 67]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=67
[issue 69]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=69
[github #36]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/36
[github #38]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/issues/38
## Version 0.14 (Dec 10, 2011)
_New features_
- New brightness monitor, courtesy of Martin Perner.
- New DateZone plugin, for configurable timezone and localized
datetimes, also by Martin.
- New keyboard layout monitor (Kbd). Yes, by Martin.
- Rewrite of the event handling ([issue 53], [issue 57]), you
guessed it.
- Cpu monitor now also reports `iowait` field ([issue 55]).
- Battery monitor: the full charge file is now settable in the
monitor arguments (olpc systems use `charge_full_design`; see
[issue 62]).
_Bug fixes_
- [issue 45] Fix for crashes with AC status changes in battery monitor.
- [issue 48] The <quality> field of Wireless behaves like a percentage.
- [issue 50]/[issue 61]: `MPD` monitor now works with libmpd 0.6.
- [issue 60] Fixes for crashes on power resume for battery monitor.
- Template sections without fields are now correctly displayed.
- Catch errors when reading battery status (Ben Boeckel).
- Compilation issues with ghc 7.x (Sergei Trofimovich).
- Fixes for CoreTemp monitor in new kernels (Norbert Zeh).
- Fix for pulseaudio problems in volume monitor (Martin Perner).
- Fix for parsing errors when a `Run` entry ended in an array
(Martin).
- Fixed compilation in OpenBSD (Ivo van der Sangen).
[issue 45]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=45
[issue 48]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=48
[issue 50]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=50
[issue 53]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=53
[issue 55]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=55
[issue 57]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=57
[issue 60]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=60
[issue 61]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=61
[issue 62]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=62
## Version 0.13 (March 28, 2011)
_New features_
- New `Volume` monitor displaying ALSA soundcards information, by
Thomas Tuegel.
- New `ThermalZone` plugin substituting `Thermal` and using linux's
*sysfs* interface (you need this one if you're using a kernel
version equal to or above 2.6.37). See [issue 44].
- xmobar app new has WM_CLASS, WM_NAME and _NET_WM_PID xprops
([issue 38]).
_Incompatible changes_
- In the process of solving [issue 14], we've broken those
configurations that rely on including alignment separators in the
input fed to `StdinReader`.
- The MPD plugin does not accept host and port options anymore: use
the environment variables MPD_HOST and MPD_PORT instead.
- The `Mail` plugin now takes a second parameter (a string)
specifying its alias. As a side-effect, this solves [issue 30].
_Bug fixes_
- [issue 14] `StdinReader` and other plugins accepting external
input don't get confused anymore when characters from `alignSep`
appear in their input.
- [issue 27] `BottomSize` placement now respects its width argument.
- [issue 28] Compilation in Mac OS X fixed.
- [issue 30] `Mail` plugin can be specified anywhere in commands list.
- [issue 36] Battery monitor now supports non-standard locations of
the `/sys/class/power_supply/AC/online` file.
- [issue 40] Battery monitor now supports the new power_now, that
replaces current_now in linux kernels for v. 2.36 and above.
- [issue 42] More accurate net monitor rates.
- DiskIO, Cpu and MultiCpu monitors are also more accurate now.
- Text is now correctly centered vertically.
- `FullBM` border spec fixed.
[issue 14]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=14
[issue 27]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=27
[issue 28]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=28
[issue 30]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=30
[issue 36]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=36
[issue 38]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=38
[issue 40]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=40
[issue 42]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=42
[issue 44]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=44
## Version 0.12 (Dec 24, 2010)
xmobar has a new [maintainer], a new [website], a new [mailing
list] and uses a new [source code repository].
Many thanks to Andrea Rossato, xmobar's author and maintainer so far,
for creating xmobar in the first place, and for giving me the chance
to become its maintainer. And a big thanks to Ben Boeckel, Petr Rockai
and Norbert Zeh for their patches.
[website]: http://projects.haskell.org/xmobar/
[mailing list]: http://projects.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xmobar
[source code repository]: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar
[maintainer]: http://hacks-galore.org/jao/
_New features_
- Window borders: configuration options `border` and `borderColor`
allow drawing borders around xmobar's window.
- New monitor, `Uptime`, showing the system uptime.
- New monitor argument (`-S`) to enable displaying the `%` symbol in
percentages or other suffixes (e.g., units in Uptime and Network);
the symbol is now never included by default.
- New 'run once' commands, by specifying a 0 refresh rate in `Run
Com` ([issue 26]).
- MPD monitor: updated to libmpd 1.5. New fields `ppos` (playlist
position) and `remaining` (remaining time). New configuration
options to specify MPD's host, user name and password.
- Battery monitor: new `watts` and `timeleft` fields (Petr Rockai),
and specific arguments to control coloring and thresholds of the
former.
- MultiCPU monitor: new `auto*` fields that automatically detect all
present CPUs (Ben Boeckel).
- CpuFreq monitor uses just one decimal digit for GHz values (Petr
Rockai).
- Mail plugin expands paths starting with "~/" (Ben Boeckel). Ditto
MBox.
- Weather monitor now skips not retrieved fields, instead of
displaying a long error message.
- New compilation flag, `all_extensions`.
- Documentation and website updates.
_Bug fixes_
- [issue 23] Wireless monitor is now compatible with iwlib 29.
- [issue 24] Swap monitor's used ratio display fixed.
- [issue 25] Percentages only include `%` if requested using `-P`.
- [issue 31] MPD monitor now respects `-W` argument.
- Fixes in CPU frequency formatting, string alignment and colour
boxes in monitors (Norbert Zeh).
- TopMem and TopProc now use the `-L` and `-H` options correctly for
memory template fields.
- MBox skips non-existent mbox paths instead of hanging.
[issue 23]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=23
[issue 24]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=24
[issue 25]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=25
[issue 26]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=26
[issue 31]: http://code.google.com/p/xmobar/issues/detail?id=31