I am having trouble configuring the top status bar in Xmonad. My xmonad.hs is based on this one:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Xmonad/Config_archive/Thayer_Williams%27_xmonad.hs
It is basically the same, only without the -fn 'arial:bold:size=11' part because that caused trouble (dzen configuration). However, in this config I can not get the status bar to work properly. The system basically shows the status bar, but it does not parse the code correctly. It does show the temperature, speed, load, etc. but it still shows <fc=#999999> instead of the actual colors. Also, the left part of the status bar is not showing titles, just the code. See a sample here:
Using Arch Linux, and I have dzen2 and conky installed properly. What I am not able to figure out is what causes this problem. Whatever I change to the config, it simply shows code instead of just the parsed/formatted data. Anybody any idea?
