XMobar keeps showing "Updating..." for volume, brightness and power widgets

[aholmes2534]

When I run your XMonad config using Xephyr, everything works perfectly, but when I log in via LightDM and actually use it, it only displays "Updating" for the battery, brightness and volume widgets. I tried searching for a way out of this but have spent a few hours and have failed to find any errors. ( The scripts work perfectly when invoked via the terminal, and I've added .local/bin to PATH and installed all the dependencies too. ) I'd really appreciate some help with this...

Thanks!

[antoniosarosi]

How did you add .local/bin to $PATH? If you didn't use the full route it won't work:

export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH

If the scripts work from a terminal when invoking them without the full path, like battery instead of ~/.local/bin/battery, then that's not the problem. Check if the file where $PATH is exported is actually executed when you login. If you do that in ~/.xprofile add a line similar to this one: touch ~/text.txt. If the file is created then that's not the problem either.

Last thing that comes to my mind right now is that in the xmobar config there's a line that uses a full route containing my user name.
.config/xmobar/primary.hs:

Run Com "/home/antonio/.config/xmobar/trayer-padding-icon.sh" [] "trayerpad" 600,

If you haven't already, change the username in that path to yours. It doesn't work with $HOME or ~.

[aholmes2534]

Thank you so much for your patient reply! While my path declaration was right, seems like I put it in the wrong place... It's working now. 👍🏾