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Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar
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'Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)' in i3bar #446

Closed ioanclarke closed 3 years ago

ioanclarke commented 3 years ago

logfile: here i3 version 4.19 i3status version 2.13

My i3bar displays 'Error: status_command process exited unexpectedly (exit 1)' in the bottom right-hand corner. I have tried every solution I found on the web but nothing has worked. Any suggestions?

orestisfl commented 3 years ago
  1. Run i3status from the command line. Does it crash with an error?
  2. Run i3bar -V --bar_id=bar-0. Also redirect the output so that you can upload it here. Wait for the error (in the bar), press ctrl-c to exit.
ioanclarke commented 3 years ago
  1. Run i3status from the command line. Does it crash with an error?
  2. Run i3bar -V --bar_id=bar-0. Also redirect the output so that you can upload it here. Wait for the error (in the bar), press ctrl-c to exit.
  1. When running 'i3status', I get 'Could not set locale. Please make sure all your LC_* / LANG settings are correct'. I managed to fix this earlier by running 'export LANG=C'. After doing this fix, running 'i3status' gave me the proper output. However, it appears this was not a permanent solution.
  2. This makes the proper output of i3status show up in i3bar! It does not result in an error. The output from running the command is attached. output.txt
orestisfl commented 3 years ago

Then it seems that your locale settings are wrong. I don't know the specifics of your environment but you should follow the instructions of your distribution in order to configure this correctly. For example, arch instructions will probably apply to most environments: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locale.

'export LANG=C'. After doing this fix, running 'i3status' gave me the proper output. However, it appears this was not a permanent solution.

Yes, exporting a variable will only work for the current shell.

Closing this since it seems that it is not an i3* issue but don't feel discouraged to respond if you have further problems.

ioanclarke commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the help. I am using Arch, and I followed the advice from the wiki and I couldn't resolve the 'Could not set locale. Please make sure all your LC_* / LANG settings are correct' error. The only way I managed to get it working was to put 'LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"' in /etc/environment. So more of a workaround than a fix, but it'll do for now.