On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:09:39 +0200 Aaron Marcher <[email protected]> wrote:
Hey Aaron, > Now to the actual content: I always wanted some statusbar in dwm. I > started with some shell script as pointed out in the wiki but it grew > and used a lot of resources. So I started to hack something in C. > That project, which was initially forked by "dwmstatus" and only > intended to be used by me grew and became something bigger. I started > to write it, so that it can be easily used by other people. Multiple > entries per function (e.g. multiple batteries) are supported and > everything can be reordered and customized via a C header file > (similar to other suckless programs). this looks really cool! I think it is something that we've all been looking for in some way. The dwm wiki has lots of code snippets on the topic and a thin library that provides said functionality, but such a tool really looks like a good general purpose solution. > Currently I am working on porting it to BSD as it is only made for > Linux at the moment. I'm looking forward to see how the porting efforts work out. Cheers Laslo -- Laslo Hunhold <[email protected]>
