Using the xmonad tiling window manger and looking for a way to keep track of your workspaces, the time, and more? This guide shows how you can set up dzen2 as a statusbar with state information from xmonad.
dzen2 is a general purpose statusbar; it can display anything you like from standard in and integrates easily with xmonad or your own scripts. dzen2 is even capable of displaying icons and advanced text formatting.
If you’re not familiar with xmonad and configuring it, see my post on getting started with xmonad on Ubuntu.

Install dzen2
Install dzen2 from the package dzen2 (click the link to install), or by running the command below in your terminal:

sudo apt-get install dzen2

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