[zer0rest]

Xmonad(and others) is heavily inspired by dwm. I prefer dwm because it is configured in C instead of haskell(I don't know haskell) and the bar is much simpler than xmobar. Xmonad is cool if you like haskell though.

http://dwm.suckless.org/

[dghf]

Apply the pango patch [0] to dwm, and you can get nice xft fonts, Unicode icons and colours in the status bar.

[0] http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/pango

[nyir]

Do you perhaps have an update to that patch against git HEAD or 6.1?

[dghf]

I don't, but this thread might help: http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1407/23054.html