-- i'll do my best to make notes but it's a bit of a mess
-- https://archives.haskell.org/projects.haskell.org/xmobar/#system-monitor-plugins

-- FYI xmobar and trayer will need to be killed before reloading
-- to be sure that it is in fact reloading. if it doesn't
-- run both from the terminal to see what's what. maybe set up an alias 
-- in bashrc 'alias kxb="killall trayer xmobar"' (without single quotes) 

Config { font = "xft:mononoki bold:pixelsize=14"
      , bgColor = "black"
      , fgColor = "grey"
      , position = Top
      , lowerOnStart = True
      -- here the widgets are configured before being placed on the bar in template
      , commands = 
            [ Run Cpu 
                [ "-L", "50"
                , "-H", "75"
                , "--normal", "orange"
                , "--high", "red"
                ] 35
            , Run Memory 
                [ "-t", "Mem: <used>MB"
                ]  50
      -- cpu core temperature monitor
            , Run CoreTemp 
                [ "--template" , "Temp: <core0>°C | <core1>°C"
                , "--Low"      , "70"        -- units: °C
                , "--High"     , "80"        -- units: °C
                , "--low"      , "green"
                , "--normal"   , "orange"
                , "--high"     , "red"
                ] 16
    		    , Run Date "%d-%m-%y | %H:%M" "date" 10
      -- trayer SET PATH TO TRAYER SCRIPT!!
            , Run Com "/home/chris/.config/xmobar/trayer-padding-icon.sh" [] "trayerpad" 124
            --left hand widgets
            , Run StdinReader
            , Run Swap [] 10
            ]
       , sepChar = "%"
       , alignSep = "}{"
       -- inverted curly brackets dictate alignment. everything before } is on the left.
       -- and everything after { is on the right.
       -- trayer is a bit of a pain to set up, see startup hooks in xmonad.hs and
       -- consult the man page for flags. i suggest wrapping the widget in colour 
       -- tags to match xmobar's BG colour, as the word "updating" appears underneath.
       -- i don't seem to be having much luck with this auto expand script either.
       , template = "%StdinReader% }{<fc=#000000>%trayerpad%</fc> %memory% %swap% | %coretemp% | %cpu% | %date% "
       }