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i3 FAQ - Individual question feedhttps://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:19:28 +0000custom dzen2 statusbar notification shell script reports "status_command exited unexpectedly"https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/ Hello. I use a shell script to display the date and such things in my statusbar. I cut out irrelevant parts of both the i3 config file and the shellscript. When i3 is started, the statusbar displays "Error: status_command exited unexpectedly (exit 0)" along with the dzen2 bar. How can i fix that? My i3 config contains: bar { status_command sh ~/.i3/statusbar.sh } statusbar.sh: #!/bin/sh DZEN_FG="#A0A0A0" DZEN_BG="#1f1f1f" HEIGHT=20 WIDTH=300 X=1300 Y=2000 DZEN="dzen2 -x $X -y $Y -w $WIDTH -h $HEIGHT -ta right -bg $DZEN_BG -fg $DZEN_FG" while true do echo "`date`" done | $DZEN & Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:34:15 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/Answer by Airblader for Hello. I use a shell script to display the date and such things in my statusbar. I cut out irrelevant parts of both the i3 config file and the shellscript. When i3 is started, the statusbar displays "Error: status_command exited unexpectedly (exit 0)" along with the dzen2 bar. How can i fix that? My i3 config contains: <pre><code>bar { status_command sh ~/.i3/statusbar.sh } </code></pre> statusbar.sh: <pre><code>#!/bin/sh DZEN_FG="#A0A0A0" DZEN_BG="#1f1f1f" HEIGHT=20 WIDTH=300 X=1300 Y=2000 DZEN="dzen2 -x $X -y $Y -w $WIDTH -h $HEIGHT -ta right -bg $DZEN_BG -fg $DZEN_FG" while true do echo "`date`" done | $DZEN & </code></pre> https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?answer=7024#post-id-7024Remove the bar block from your i3 config entirely and instead add exec --no-startup-id ~/.i3/statusbar.sh Dzen is a complete status bar, you don't want to feed its output into i3bar but actually just start it. Fri, 23 Oct 2015 15:39:29 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?answer=7024#post-id-7024Comment by toogley for Remove the bar block from your i3 config entirely and instead add <pre><code>exec --no-startup-id ~/.i3/statusbar.sh </code></pre> Dzen is a complete status bar, you don't want to feed its output into i3bar but actually just start it. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7107#comment-7107Thanks for the clarification :)Fri, 30 Oct 2015 15:19:28 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7107#comment-7107Comment by Airblader for Remove the bar block from your i3 config entirely and instead add <pre><code>exec --no-startup-id ~/.i3/statusbar.sh </code></pre> Dzen is a complete status bar, you don't want to feed its output into i3bar but actually just start it. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7037#comment-7037You're confusing very different things here. i3bar is a bar, i3status only a data tool. Dzen is a bar, conky is a data tool (in this context). So Dzen and conky are entirely different things and not "alternatives".Anyway, I usually recommend using i3blocks with i3bar, but conky and i3bar is fine tooSat, 24 Oct 2015 16:29:56 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7037#comment-7037Comment by toogley for Remove the bar block from your i3 config entirely and instead add <pre><code>exec --no-startup-id ~/.i3/statusbar.sh </code></pre> Dzen is a complete status bar, you don't want to feed its output into i3bar but actually just start it. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7035#comment-7035Hey, I wanted to have more control over my statusbar (like different colors for time and date), and for that i didn't liked i3status. I'm using now conky for that, it solves my problems much better as dzen2. => solved, thanksSat, 24 Oct 2015 11:35:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7035#comment-7035Comment by Airblader for Remove the bar block from your i3 config entirely and instead add <pre><code>exec --no-startup-id ~/.i3/statusbar.sh </code></pre> Dzen is a complete status bar, you don't want to feed its output into i3bar but actually just start it. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7026#comment-7026You can only do that by providing all that information to dzen using the i3 IPC. That's a bit of work, I'm sure solutions exist out there already, though. But I don't know them, you'll have to search for them. Why exactly do you want to use dzen? What do you want to do that i3bar can't do?Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:57:40 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7026#comment-7026Comment by toogley for Remove the bar block from your i3 config entirely and instead add <pre><code>exec --no-startup-id ~/.i3/statusbar.sh </code></pre> Dzen is a complete status bar, you don't want to feed its output into i3bar but actually just start it. https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7025#comment-7025i actualy like the rest of my Statusbar (mainly the displaying of the windows). I assume, i can get that equally with dzen2, but a little search hasn't answered the problem. ==> Is this the only option and if so, could you give me a hint how to display the windows like the default i3bar in dzen2?Fri, 23 Oct 2015 17:10:22 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/7020/custom-dzen2-statusbar-notification-shell-script-reports-status_command-exited-unexpectedly/?comment=7025#comment-7025