https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:54:00 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3509/installing-and-configuring-i3-on-arch/I recently installed Arch and wanted to install i3 as my window manager. After installing i3, I added i3 to my xinitrc file and ran startx. The i3 window manager loads, but the i3bar doesn't. Instead I see "Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)". I am fairly sure the issue is with my i3status.conf file. When I comment out the the line "status_command i3status" in my /.i3/config file the error goes away. The problem is, I have no clue what is wrong with the file. It's the default generated one and would assume it should work. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance, WraithxivMon, 10 Mar 2014 15:19:51 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3509/installing-and-configuring-i3-on-arch/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3509/installing-and-configuring-i3-on-arch/?answer=3510#post-id-3510I ended up solving this issue myself. I tried using dzen2 instead of i3bar but when I installed it and tried to start it from terminal I would receive the error "dzen: locale not available, expect problems with fonts." Turns out when I initially setup Arch, I hadn't enabled my locale. I had already edited my locale.gen file but never ran the command locale-gen to update the system. After doing so my i3bar started working!Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:54:00 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3509/installing-and-configuring-i3-on-arch/?answer=3510#post-id-3510