* Jake Todd <jaketodd...@gmail.com> [2009-05-03 05:31]:
> What are you guys using?
I use
in .Xsession
while true ; do
xsetroot -name "`${HOME}/.status`";
sleep 4;
done &
and here is .status
cat .status |~
#!/bin/sh
sswriter \
-w 10 \
-f /home/stanio/.current_song /home/stanio/.recent_events \
-a 20 25 \
-t THRM \
-D eth0 eth2 \
-d "%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M'%S" \
-s PCM Master Mic \
"%[ | %f0%] %[ | %f1%] |%(B* WARNING * BATTERY *%)%(b%v1%V1 %v2%V2| %d|
%m %sMB| %n%(w %q%%%) %i:%o kB| %C0MHz %p0%%| %b0%%| %t0°C%)"
Sswriter is pretty powerful c program posted perhaps more than year
ago on the wmii mailing list, as I was still half wmii user. I use a
patched 0.3.1 version.
sample output of ./.status is:
song | event |81on 80off| 2009-05-09 Sat 11:44'18| 278 0MB| eth0 0.0:0.0 kB|
798MHz 46%| 100%| 53°C
which translates to
song|event|volume of headphones and
micropone|date|memory+swap|link|cpu|battery|temp
For those interested:
http://www.mail-archive.com/w...@suckless.org/msg01935.html
I noticed I very rarely look at most of the stuff in this status bar thoug,
so I am thinking of 2 staged status query -- e.g. date/time and temp in the
dwm status bar; The rest can be queried 'on demand' in the console.
--
cheers
stanio_
