"bar_configurations" does not seem to work

[shoan]

I am trying to get a bar on the top of each of my two monitors. The default bar configuration works perfectly fine and by default places the bar on the wrong monitor. With a quick change to $monitor.index, I am able to have a functioning bar on the right monitor. But when I specify bar_configurations with the path to the same working bar configuration in komorebi.json, I get no bar anywhere. Needless to say that specifying two path to two different bar configs with different $.monitor.index also does not work.

Here is the relevant root element from my komorebi.json that doesn't work.

"bar_configurations":["$Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.json"],

If I just delete this line, komorebi loads the bar with the same config file. I am running komorebic 0.1.30 on Windows 11.

What am I doing wrong?

[CtByte]

@shoan This works for me and just to make sure, you need 2 separate files for the monitors. and make sure that you set the monitor.index setting in the configs to the respected monitors.

use the komorebic monitor-info command to get the indexes, the first one is index 0, second is index 1, and so on.

  "bar_configurations": [
    "$Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.json",
    "$Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.2.json"
  ],

if this does not work then you might have something invalid in your config files

use this command to test your config files, since you can see logs in the console

komorebi-bar --config $Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.json

Try restarting your komorebi just to make sure. My second bar disappears when it hot reloads

komorebic stop --bar; komorebic start --bar

[shoan]

I initial tried what you proposed and ended up with no bar on either monitor. So I assumed that something is wrong with the way I was using the border_configuration. My files are named komorebi.bar.monitor2.json and komorebi.bar.monitor1.json. When I run komorebi-bar --config $env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.monitor2.json and komorebi-bar --config $env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.monitor1.json from different powershell terminals, I get a bar on each display as expected.

But I don't get any bar when I run komorebic start --bar --whkd with the following added to the root of komorebic.json:

"$Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.monitor2.json",
"$Env:USERPROFILE/komorebi.bar.monitor1.json"
],```

I also see in the task manager that the komorebic-bar.exe process is not running. 

[CtByte]

@LGUG2Z so the komorebi-bar --config $env:USERPROFILE.... command works with spaces, but the komorebic start --bar does not.

you need a wrapper for all of these Start-Process commands ;)

@shoan in case you do have a space in the path to the config, then try to move them to another folder without space and update the komorebi.json.

[shoan]

My login/user name on the machine is firstname lastname. That's probably where the space is coming from.

I'll probably have to figure out to change it to get rid of the space now.

Will try creating a folder for the config in the root on c drive.

[LGUG2Z]

Should only be a temporary workaround, this will be fixed in the next release 🤞

[shoan]

Moving the bar config to C:\komorebi\ solved the problem for now. Seeing a bar on each monitor.

[LGUG2Z]

Can you try the komorebic.exe binary from this commit and see if it handles bar configuration files under your home folder now? cc18697

I've tested that this is now fixed on master and will be part of the latest nightly release tonight.