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Installing and Configuring i3 on Arch

asked 2014-03-10 15:19:51 +0000

wraithxiv gravatar image

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: statuscommand process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)". I am fairly sure the issue is with my i3status.conf file. When I comment out the the line "statuscommand 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,

Wraithxiv

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answered 2014-03-10 19:54:00 +0000

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updated 2014-03-10 19:56:57 +0000

I 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!

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