Re: Statusbars

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:36:51 +0000, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > is there any way to get text in the statusbar instead of hidden items?
> > say i want a base layout like
>
> > +------[act: 2,3]------------------------------------------[lag: 0.09]-+
> > +------[mail]----------------------------------------------------------+
>
> you want it always in those locations? .. a bit difficult, but could be done
> if you used perl scripts to do all those items, so that they always exist
> but just print empty space when they're not used.
>
ok...so one would monitor for statusbar related signals and update
accordingly? guess i better read the perl documentation now =)...thanks
for the suggestion...

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