After the latest talk about ways of filling the dwm statusbar on the list, i have modified a simple C tool i found at the list and startet a project to create a simple yet flexible status gatherer.
https://svn.0mark.unserver.de/statinator4k/ For now, it has cpu, ram, cpu clock, battery, wifi and notify monitors. MPD, thermal (acpi and lm_sensors) support is planned. Output is available as stdout and root window title. The output can be formated for dwm, dwm with statuscolor patch, dwm-sprinkles (improved statuscolor) and html (except for the plain dwm format they are not complete yet). i hope neither my bad english nor my bad C was to annoying :) greets stefan mark
