Re: [dev] Re: Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-20 Thread Petr Sabata
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:33:02PM +0100, garbeam wrote:
 Hi there again,
 
 On 3 June 2011 17:35, garbeam garb...@gmail.com wrote:
  DELETE
  - 9libs
  - diri
  - genosite
  - gentoo
  - godwm
  - libdraw.old
  - make
  - stali-toolchain (this is outdated and better stuff is in the works)
  - wmii-2.5 (obsolete)
  - wmii-3 (obsolete)
  - wmii-3.5 (obsolete)
  - wmii-3.6 (obsolete)
 
 I deleted those repos now.
 
  RELOCATE
  - last (google code) ??
  - libixp (google code) ??
  - r9p (google code) ??
  - vp (google code) ??
  - wmii (google code) ??
  - wmiirc-rumai (google code) ??
  - skvm (dunno, don't get it) ??
 
 I would like to hear about the status. Are things started to relocate
 those repos?

And why do you want to move them, actually?

 
  @Kris: Please let me know how much time you need for the transition
  and if you need any help. I guess a transition could take a couple of
  months quite easily and requires some time on your side as well.
 
 Any news on this please?
 
 Cheers,
 --garbeam
 

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Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Hadrian Węgrzynowski
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:51:46 +0200
Bartosz Nitkiewicz bartosz.nitkiew...@dziq.pl wrote:

Hello,
I'm looking for a best way to monitor battery status in dwm. Any hints?


It's maybe not the best way, but I written small utility that uses
Linux /proc and /sys to take stats. Original source outputs cpu usage,
cpu freq, cpu temp, mem usage, battery status and gpu temp for my
thinkpad.
https://gitorious.org/stater
To configure it you must change source ;) You can remove wmfs
formatters.
I am not proficient in C and Makefile could be better and don't know
is it suckless enough.



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Stefan Mark
On 19.06.2011 22:51, Bartosz Nitkiewicz wrote:
 Hello, 
 I'm looking for a best way to monitor battery status in dwm. Any hints?
 
I use a extensible perl script
(https://svn.0mark.unserver.de/dwmd/branches/experimental/). Not
perfect, but easy to maintain and extend. The script features Monitors
for temp (acpi and lm-sensors), cpu clock, battery, wireless signal
strength, mpd and date. It also provied wallpaper changer and autostart.
Lacks documentation.

But i think think this is a better solution:
http://dwm.suckless.org/dwmstatus/



[dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

2011-06-20 Thread Le Tian
As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys
use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs
crap, that is difficult to awk.
-- 
Tian


Re: [dev] Re: Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-20 Thread Uriel
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Petr Sabata con...@redhat.com wrote:

 On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:33:02PM +0100, garbeam wrote:

 I would like to hear about the status. Are things started to relocate
  those repos?

 And why do you want to move them, actually?


Usual garbeam fetish for busywork. He is an excellent bureaucrat.

uriel


Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

2011-06-20 Thread Nick
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote:
 As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you guys
 use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it outputs
 crap, that is difficult to awk.

It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from
that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the
(rather ugly) alsa library functions.

Nick



Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

2011-06-20 Thread Le Tian
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote:

 On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote:
  As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you
 guys
  use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it
 outputs
  crap, that is difficult to awk.

 It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from
 that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the
 (rather ugly) alsa library functions.

 Nick

 you mean  amixer sget Master, yes, that is way better, thanks!
-- 
Tian


Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread pancake

On 06/20/11 10:24, Hadrian Węgrzynowski wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:51:46 +0200
Bartosz Nitkiewiczbartosz.nitkiew...@dziq.pl  wrote:


Hello,
I'm looking for a best way to monitor battery status in dwm. Any hints?


It's maybe not the best way, but I written small utility that uses
Linux /proc and /sys to take stats. Original source outputs cpu usage,
cpu freq, cpu temp, mem usage, battery status and gpu temp for my
thinkpad.
https://gitorious.org/stater
To configure it you must change source ;) You can remove wmfs
formatters.
I am not proficient in C and Makefile could be better and don't know
is it suckless enough.


this is thinkpad specific.



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Hadrian Węgrzynowski
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:27:10 +0200
pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote:

On 06/20/11 10:24, Hadrian Węgrzynowski wrote:
 It's maybe not the best way, but I written small utility that uses
 Linux /proc and /sys to take stats. Original source outputs cpu
 usage, cpu freq, cpu temp, mem usage, battery status and gpu temp
 for my thinkpad.
 https://gitorious.org/stater
 To configure it you must change source ;) You can remove wmfs
 formatters.
 I am not proficient in C and Makefile could be better and don't know
 is it suckless enough.

this is thinkpad specific.


This is not true. As I said:
 To configure it you must change source ;) You can remove wmfs
 formatters.
But of course it needs few more changes than simply changing paths.

I use modified version of this on old Athlon XP 2600+ machine and my
Pentium Dual Core desktop.

You can rip off all but battery status checks and set proper paths.
Probably battery status will not need any changes on newer kernels with
ACPI_BATTERY, ACPI_SYSFS_POWER and SYSFS
(/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/). 



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread ilf

On 06-19 22:55, Erik Hahn wrote:

http://dwm.suckless.org/scripts/simple_monitors


I have done this the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | shell way for years 
and found it to be way more resource intense then calling acpi -b.


Let's face it, the Shell/Perl/Python/whatever scripting is relatively 
easy, but very inefficient.


That's why I really like this approach:

On 06-20 10:43, Stefan Mark wrote:

But i think think this is a better solution:
http://dwm.suckless.org/dwmstatus/


Unfortunately, this promise is not kept:

This page will give you a barebone dwmstatus project and show examples 
on how to extend it to your needs.


It'd be cool to have a configurable C program to do what we're currently 
all scripting ourselves.


FWIW, my relevant part from .xinitrc: http://pastebin.com/ShQYQri1

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ilf

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Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Jukka Ruohonen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:51:46PM +0200, Bartosz Nitkiewicz wrote:
 I'm looking for a best way to monitor battery status in dwm. Any hints?

xbattbar,

http://iplab.naist.jp/member/suguru/xbattbar.html

But no idea whether it is suckless (i.e. haven't looked beyond the surface,
which I like).

- Jukka.



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, ilf i...@zeromail.org wrote:
 I have done this the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | shell way for years and
 found it to be way more resource intense then calling acpi -b.

 Let's face it, the Shell/Perl/Python/whatever scripting is relatively easy,
 but very inefficient.

I update my status bar every 50 seconds.  I sacrifice, for this,
approximately thirty seconds of battery life on a battery that lasts
on the order of seven hours to a charge.  I'm not particularly
concerned by this 'inefficiency,' to be honest.

-- 
# Kurt H Maier



Re: [dev] Re: Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-20 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Petr Sabata con...@redhat.com wrote:

 And why do you want to move them, actually?

Because they're garbage?



On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Uriel ur...@berlinblue.org wrote:

 Usual garbeam fetish for busywork. He is an excellent bureaucrat.

Well, he *is* german.



-- 
# Kurt H Maier



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Stefan Mark
On 20.06.2011 12:47, Kurt H Maier wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:59 AM, ilf i...@zeromail.org wrote:
 I have done this the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | shell way for years and
 found it to be way more resource intense then calling acpi -b.

 Let's face it, the Shell/Perl/Python/whatever scripting is relatively easy,
 but very inefficient.
 
 I update my status bar every 50 seconds.  I sacrifice, for this,
 approximately thirty seconds of battery life on a battery that lasts
 on the order of seven hours to a charge.  I'm not particularly
 concerned by this 'inefficiency,' to be honest.
 
On one of my system im really concerned about the ram usage.
But mostly its because i dont like to waste resources. It just nags me
having a perl script running that uses twice the memory as the window
manager just to display some status information. And it adds up. 2 for
the status, 6 for a python based notifier, maybe a wallpaper changer or
a udev daemon...



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:17:58PM +0200, Stefan Mark wrote:
 On 20.06.2011 11:59, ilf wrote:
  On 06-19 22:55, Erik Hahn wrote:
  http://dwm.suckless.org/scripts/simple_monitors
  
  I have done this the /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state | shell way for years
  and found it to be way more resource intense then calling acpi -b.
  
  Let's face it, the Shell/Perl/Python/whatever scripting is relatively
  easy, but very inefficient.
  

This program allows me to put 'whatever I can create on stdout' to the statusbar

#ifndef _GNU_SOURCE
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#endif
#include stdlib.h
#include stdio.h

#include X11/Xlib.h

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) {
int ret;
Display *dpy;
Window root;
const char *display;
char *line = 0;
size_t size = 0;


/* open display */
display = getenv(DISPLAY) ?: :0;
dpy = XOpenDisplay(display);
if (!dpy) {
fprintf(stderr, Unable to open display '%s'\n, display);
exit(1);
}
root = RootWindow(dpy, DefaultScreen(dpy));

while (1) {
ret = getline(line, size, stdin);
if (ret  0)
break;
XStoreName(dpy, root, line);
XSync(dpy, False);
}
return 0;
}




Re: [dev] Microsoft considers harmful...

2011-06-20 Thread Uriel
John Carmack: I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a
severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the culture of
security.

http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/status/81732190949486592

HTML5 is great, it is the final nail in the coffin of XML, and that
can only be a good thing, of course it will take decades to bury the
god damned thing, but it is the beginning of the end.

The web can't be saved, lets at least try to save the future by
killing XML as soon as possible.

And may ken bless JSON, which has been like a miracle, ironically born
of some of the worst web technologies around.

uriel

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:00 PM, hiro 23h...@googlemail.com wrote:

 http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2011/06/16/webgl-considered-harmful.aspx

 They learned their lesson and I want a button for disabling HTML5 in my 
 browser.




[dev] utf-8 and custom pcf font conflict

2011-06-20 Thread Le Tian
While trying to make a custom pcf font with icons for dwm taskbar I
ultimately didn't manage to make it work under utf-8. Is there a workaround
for this problem?
-- 
Tian


Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread ilf

On 06-20 13:25, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:

This program allows me to put 'whatever I can create on stdout' to the statusbar


Euh yeah, that's what we use xsetroot(1) for.

The problem is the scripting before that setp, aquiring the whatever I 
can create on stdout.


--
ilf

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Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:59:57PM +0200, ilf wrote:
 On 06-20 13:25, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
 This program allows me to put 'whatever I can create on stdout' to the 
 statusbar
 
 Euh yeah, that's what we use xsetroot(1) for.

I missed (and still do not see)
how to make xsetroot(1) read from stdin, line by line.
That's why (I thought) that scripts spawn xsetroot(1) each time.
 



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Bartosz Nitkiewicz
Thx to all for hints. I put acpi -b |tr -d ','|awk '{print $4}' onto my old
script and everythig works fine.
Maby i'll be usefull for somebody

git://github.com/dziq/configs.git

2011/6/20 Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be

 On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:59:57PM +0200, ilf wrote:
  On 06-20 13:25, Kurt Van Dijck wrote:
  This program allows me to put 'whatever I can create on stdout' to the
 statusbar
 
  Euh yeah, that's what we use xsetroot(1) for.

 I missed (and still do not see)
 how to make xsetroot(1) read from stdin, line by line.
 That's why (I thought) that scripts spawn xsetroot(1) each time.
 




-- 
Bartosz Nitkiewicz


Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey,

On 20 June 2011 12:25, Kurt Van Dijck kurt.van.di...@eia.be wrote:
 #ifndef _GNU_SOURCE
 #define _GNU_SOURCE
 #endif

Please don't encourage things like this. getline() is available in
POSIX 2008; though I suspect the far more portable fgets() would
suffice.

Thanks,
cls



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote:

 Please don't encourage things like this. getline() is available in
 POSIX 2008; though I suspect the far more portable fgets() would
 suffice.


getline / getdelim (re)allocates buffers though. But yes a custom
function with fgets would be more compatible.



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 20 June 2011 18:05, Hiltjo Posthuma hil...@codemadness.org wrote:
 getline / getdelim (re)allocates buffers though. But yes a custom
 function with fgets would be more compatible.

My point was that this is unnecessary: is your screen able to display
more than, say, 8192 characters (a common value for BUFSIZ) on a
single line? And even if so, why are you piping an essay into your
status bar anyway?

cls



Re: [dev] more on sbase

2011-06-20 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey,

On 20 June 2011 14:08, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote:
 I missed chroot(1)

chroot(1) isn't POSIX. We may add other, non-POSIX, utilities for the
purposes of a Linux distro (in a subdirectory), but for the moment I'd
like to concentrate on the portable tools.

 To create an archive library you need to run ranlib, AR is not enought...
 well it's enought on linux and some BSDs.. but it's definitively not enought
 for Solaris and OSX.

Fixed in tip.

Thanks,
cls



Re: [dev] more on sbase

2011-06-20 Thread pancake
If were going to be linked to linux we can write a chroot like utility that 
uses capabilities instead f chroot() to use it without the needs of root.

Else we can just suid that bin

On 20/06/2011, at 19:39, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote:

 Hey,
 
 On 20 June 2011 14:08, pancake panc...@youterm.com wrote:
 I missed chroot(1)
 
 chroot(1) isn't POSIX. We may add other, non-POSIX, utilities for the
 purposes of a Linux distro (in a subdirectory), but for the moment I'd
 like to concentrate on the portable tools.
 
 To create an archive library you need to run ranlib, AR is not enought...
 well it's enought on linux and some BSDs.. but it's definitively not enought
 for Solaris and OSX.
 
 Fixed in tip.
 
 Thanks,
 cls
 



Re: [dev] volume level in dwm taskbar

2011-06-20 Thread Erik Falor
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:07:48PM +0300, Le Tian wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Nick suckless-...@njw.me.uk wrote:
 
  On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:00:38PM +0300, Le Tian wrote:
   As long as aumix -q refuses to work after the latest update, what you
  guys
   use to probe volume level? amixer could be an alternative but it
  outputs
   crap, that is difficult to awk.
 
  It isn't great, but I use 'amixer sget PCM' and awk from
  that. Or I use a little C utility I wrote which links to the
  (rather ugly) alsa library functions.
 
  Nick
 
  you mean  amixer sget Master, yes, that is way better, thanks!
 -- 
 Tian

I've implemented something along the lines of what Nick has described,
but for wmii: you can take a look at my github to see how I did it:

https://github.com/fadein/wmii_statusbar

Of interest for you will be the file alsavolume.c

I much prefer this way over running a pipeline with awk et. al. every
couple of seconds if only to avoid PID bloat!

-- 
Erik Falor
Registered Linux User #445632 http://counter.li.org


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Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Christoph Lohmann

Good evening,

ilf wrote:

On 06-20 10:43, Stefan Mark wrote:

But i think think this is a better solution:
http://dwm.suckless.org/dwmstatus/


Unfortunately, this promise is not kept:


This page will give you a barebone dwmstatus project and show examples on
how to extend it to your needs.


actually, dwmstatus was intended to be such a unification or an
example, how it could be done. The example source, that is hosted
there includes all the needs I had for my statusbar, so I lost
interest in developing the wiki site a bit further.

Dwmstatus is currently using a rather expensive implementation,
that is using malloc() for all parts of the status string and then
prints them together. I found this to be the most modular way for
such a code. Of course a static buffer could be used.

The wiki page should rather read »This is an example for a status
bar C application. It shows a barebone, how to construct it. For
stopping the doubling of work, to find out how to gather various
system information in the statusbar, please add your code right on
this wiki page. See [wiki] for how to edit this wiki.«

So you are free to change the wiki page or add further simple
examples to collect system information in C.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Rafa Garcia Gallego
A while back I put together a crappy C monitor, which I still use to the day.

Find the .c attached, compile with -lX11 as normal, peruse at will.

Cheers,
Rafa.
#include stdlib.h
#include stdio.h
#include time.h
#include sys/types.h
#include regex.h
#include unistd.h
#include signal.h
#include string.h
#include Xutil.h
#include Xatom.h

#define BATTERY BAT1
#define BATT_INFO_PATH  /proc/acpi/battery/BATTERY/info
#define BATT_STATE_PATH /proc/acpi/battery/BATTERY/state
#define BATT_FULL_REGEX ^last full capacity:[ ]+([0-9]*) .*$
#define BATT_CUR_REGEX  ^remaining capacity:[ ]+([0-9]*) .*$
#define DATE_FORMAT %H:%M (%Z) - %a %d.%m.%Y
#define BUFFER_SIZE 4096
#define STATUS_SIZE 256

static char *buf;
static regex_t *batt_full_re, *batt_cur_re;
static Display *dpy;
static Window root;
static XTextProperty name;

void update_status(char *c) {
	name.value=(unsigned char*)c;
	name.nitems=strlen(c);
	XSetWMName(dpy, root, name);
	XSync(dpy, False);
}

void cleanup(void) {
	regfree(batt_full_re);
	regfree(batt_cur_re);
	free(buf);
}

void die(int unused) {
	update_status(dwmrc died!);
	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

int read_batt(const char *batt_path, const regex_t *batt_re) {
	FILE *f;
	int batt_total = -1;
	regmatch_t result_re[2];

	f = fopen(batt_path, r);
	fread(buf, 1, BUFFER_SIZE, f);
	regexec(batt_re, buf, 2, result_re, 0);
	if(result_re[1].rm_so != -1  result_re[1].rm_eo != -1) {
		buf[result_re[1].rm_eo]='\0';
		batt_total = atoi(buf+result_re[1].rm_so);
	}
	fclose(f);
	return batt_total;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
	time_t cur_t;
	struct tm *cur_lt;
	char *status;
	int batt_full, batt_cur;
	int n;

	if( !(dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL)) ||
		!(buf = calloc(1, sizeof(char)*BUFFER_SIZE)) ||
		!(status = calloc(1, sizeof(char)*STATUS_SIZE)) ||
		!(batt_full_re = calloc(1, sizeof(regex_t))) ||
		!(batt_cur_re = calloc(1, sizeof(regex_t))) ) die(0);

	regcomp(batt_full_re, BATT_FULL_REGEX, REG_EXTENDED|REG_NEWLINE);
	regcomp(batt_cur_re,  BATT_CUR_REGEX, REG_EXTENDED|REG_NEWLINE);

	root = RootWindow(dpy, DefaultScreen(dpy));
	name.encoding=XA_STRING;
	name.format=8;

	signal(SIGINT, die);
	signal(SIGILL, die);
	signal(SIGTERM, die);

	while(1) {
		batt_full=read_batt(BATT_INFO_PATH, batt_full_re);
		batt_cur =read_batt(BATT_STATE_PATH, batt_cur_re);

		if(batt_full  0  batt_cur = 0) n=snprintf(status, STATUS_SIZE, %3d%% -- , (100*batt_cur/batt_full));
		else n=snprintf(status, STATUS_SIZE,  NAN -- );

		cur_t = time(NULL);
		cur_lt = localtime(cur_t);
		strftime(status[n], STATUS_SIZE-n, DATE_FORMAT, cur_lt);
		update_status(status);

		sleep(10);
	}

	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}



Re: [dev] Re: Cleanup of (hg.)suckless.org

2011-06-20 Thread garbeam
On 20 June 2011 07:48, Petr Sabata con...@redhat.com wrote:
 On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:33:02PM +0100, garbeam wrote:
 On 3 June 2011 17:35, garbeam garb...@gmail.com wrote:
  RELOCATE
  - last (google code) ??
  - libixp (google code) ??
  - r9p (google code) ??
  - vp (google code) ??
  - wmii (google code) ??
  - wmiirc-rumai (google code) ??
  - skvm (dunno, don't get it) ??

 I would like to hear about the status. Are things started to relocate
 those repos?

 And why do you want to move them, actually?

I don't consider those repositories a good fit with the suckless
philosophy anymore and I intend to sharpen the scope of suckless.org.

Cheers,
--garbeam



Re: [dev] How to monitor battery status

2011-06-20 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Connor Lane Smith c...@lubutu.com wrote:

 My point was that this is unnecessary: is your screen able to display
 more than, say, 8192 characters (a common value for BUFSIZ) on a
 single line? And even if so, why are you piping an essay into your
 status bar anyway?


Hah, then I fully agree with you (I kinda missed the context here, sorry) :)



Re: [dev] How to monitor status

2011-06-20 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:15:01PM +0100, Connor Lane Smith wrote:
 On 20 June 2011 18:05, Hiltjo Posthuma hil...@codemadness.org wrote:
  getline / getdelim (re)allocates buffers though. But yes a custom
  function with fgets would be more compatible.
I ack here.
I regularly do use getline where fgets would not suffice...
 
 My point was that this is unnecessary: is your screen able to display
 more than, say, 8192 characters (a common value for BUFSIZ) on a
 single line? And even if so, why are you piping an essay into your
 status bar anyway?

1. the statusbar is set line by line. an essay that is put on the statusbar
will give only the last line.

2.
xsetroot must be called for each change in status message. My program
does not need spawning xsetroot endless, since whatever appears on
stdin will be put (line by line) on the statusbar.
This started with the date/time. Therefore, I need a program that does
like:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
time_t t;

while (1) {
sleep(1);
time(t);
fputs(stdout, ctime(t));
fflush(stdout);
}
return 0;
}

When counting resources, you'll find this combination of 2 programs
consume less cpu-power drawing time in the statusbar than any
shell script. And at some point, consuming resources for regularly
setting the statusbar was the subject of this thread :-).

I don't think the history of timestamps equals an essay.

Kurt