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1 status monitor 2 ============== 3 The status bar text of dwm is stored in the WM\_NAME X11 property of the 4 root window, which is managed by dwm. 5 6 It can be easily set and retrieved using standard Unix tools. 7 8 xsetroot -name $status 9 10 xprop -root -notype -f WM_NAME "8u" \ 11 | sed -n -r 's/WM_NAME = \"(.*)\"/\1/p' 12 13 Set The Status Using A Shell Script 14 ----------------------------------- 15 while true; do 16 xsetroot -name "$(date)" 17 sleep 2 18 done 19 20 Set The Status Using Other Methods 21 ---------------------------------- 22 There are two status monitors maintained at suckless: 23 24 slstatus - suckless status 25 -------------------------- 26 A somewhat complex status monitor which includes all batteries. 27 28 You can read more [on the project page](//tools.suckless.org/slstatus/). 29 30 dwmstatus 31 --------- 32 Barebone status monitor with basic functions written in C. This follows the 33 suckless philosophy, to give you an easy way to extend the source code to your 34 needs. See the helper functions for C below, to extend it to your needs. Just 35 check it out and keep on hacking. 36 37 git clone git://git.suckless.org/dwmstatus 38 cd dwmstatus 39 make 40 make PREFIX=/usr install 41 # add »dwmstatus 2>&1 >/dev/null &« to your .xinitrc 42 43 Status Monitors Submitted By Others 44 ----------------------------------- 45 Feel free to add your own status monitors here (keeping the list sorted). 46 47 * [akuma-v-dwm](https://gitlab.com/narvin/avd) - event driven, modular, 48 and extensible with date/time, all batteries, volume (amixer), backlight, 49 memory and cpu usage out of the box. 50 * [barM](barM.c) - can display all, time/date, ram usage, output of commands (the New BarMonitor). 51 * [dsblocks](https://github.com/ashish-yadav11/dsblocks) - modular status 52 monitor, written and meant to be configured in C, with support for signaling, 53 clickability, cursor hinting and color. 54 * [dstat](https://www.umaxx.net/dl) 55 [Screenshot](https://www.umaxx.net/dstat.png) - displays the current network 56 throughput, CPU usage, performance settings, battery status, temperature, 57 volume settings, as well as the current date and time (OpenBSD only, no support 58 for Linux). 59 * [dwm-bar](https://github.com/joestandring/dwm-bar) - modular status bar. 60 modules for date/time, alsa volume, cmus track, countdown timer, 61 current keyboard layout, mail count, system resources, and weather. 62 * [dwmblocks](https://github.com/torrinfail/dwmblocks) - i3blocks-like 63 status bar where you can refresh each "block" independently by update time 64 or signal. 65 * [dwmblocks](https://github.com/ashish-yadav11/dwmblocks) - rewrite of 66 dwmblocks with added features including clickability, cursor hinting and 67 color. 68 * [dwms](https://github.com/ianremmler/dwms) - displays time, network, audio, 69 and battery status, written in Go using XGB. 70 * [dwmsd](https://github.com/johnko/dwmsd) - a daemon that listens on localhost 71 tcp (may be useful as a base for asynchronous updates) 72 * [dwm-sss](https://github.com/roadkillcat/dwm_sss) - shell script providing 73 date, time and CPU temperature 74 * [dwmstat](https://notabug.org/kl3/dwmstat) - small and simple | IP, CPU 75 temperature, system volume, current local time (and more) | config.h | OpenBSD 76 * [goblocks](https://github.com/Stargarth/Goblocks) - Partially inspired by dwmblocks, 77 Go status bar that allows you to refresh each block independently. Includes built in 78 features for frequently refreshed blocks. 79 * [gocaudices](https://github.com/lordrusk/gocaudices) - dwmblocks alternative written in go, 80 Gocaudices is a dwmblocks replacement meant to be simple, fast, and elegant. It tries to adhere 81 to the suckless philosophy. 82 * [go-dwmstatus](https://github.com/oniichaNj/go-dwmstatus) - A Go bar that 83 prints current MPD song, load averages, time/date and battery percentage. 84 * [gods](https://github.com/schachmat/gods) - implemented in Go. prints network 85 speed, cpu, ram, date/time 86 * [profil-dwmstatus-1.0.c](profil-dwmstatus-1.0.c) - cpufreq, battery percent 87 and date/time 88 * [rsblocks](https://github.com/MustafaSalih1993/rsblocks) - A fast multi threaded status bar written in Rust, configurable with a yaml file. 89 * [sb](https://git.ckyln.com/sb/log.html) - another modular bar written in POSIX 90 shell 91 * [spoon](https://git.2f30.org/spoon/) - set dwm status. Supports battery, 92 cpu freq, date, file, load avg, keyboard layout, mpd, network speed, 93 screen brightness, temperature, wifi, volume mixer. 94 Works well on OpenBSD and Linux. 95 * [suspend-statusbar.c](https://github.com/snobb/dwm-statusbar) - date, 96 loadavg, battery and more. If battery goes below threshold - run suspend 97 command 98 * [ztatus](https://git.noxz.tech/ztatus/log.html) - simple statusbar and 99 notification daemon (through fifo). Displays only date and time normally. 100 Configured to work with 'statuscolors' patch by default. 101 102 Helper Functions In The Shell 103 ----------------------------- 104 * [posix scripts](https://notabug.org/kl3/scripts) - basic collection of simple, fully POSIX sh compliant scripts to get various system information 105 * [i3blocks-contrib](https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks-contrib) - collection of python, perl and shell scripts 106 * Free memory: `free -h | awk '(NR==2){ print $4 }'` 107 * Volume (device Master): `amixer get Master | awk -F'[][]' 'END{ print $4":"$2 }'` 108 * Keyboard layout: `setxkbmap -query | awk '/layout/{ print $2 }'` 109 * Empty disk space (mountpoint /home): `df -h | awk '{ if ($6 == "/home") print $4 }'` 110 * wifi status (interface wlp3s0): `cat /sys/class/net/wlp3s0/operstate` 111 * CPU temperature: `sed 's/000$/°C/' /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp`. 112 Alternatively you can use `acpi -t` or `sensors` from lm-sensors package. For 113 older systems you can get the cpu temperature from 114 `/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature` 115 * Remaining battery: `cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity`. Alternatively 116 you can use `acpi -b`. For older systems you can get the battery capacity from 117 `/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state`. 118 119 Using shell scripts very well leads to big scripts, which pull in unneeded 120 dependencies. One solution for this is to write everything in C, which is much 121 more efficient. 122 123 Helper Functions In C (for dwmstatus or slstatus etc.) 124 ------------------------------------------------------ 125 If you have simple C functions for gathering system information, feel free to 126 add them here (keeping the list sorted). 127 128 * [ACPI battery status on Linux](new-acpi-battery.c) 129 * [Battery on Linux](batterystatus.c): Battery percentage and status. + if 130 charging, - if discharging, = if full. 131 * [Detecting Man-In-The-Middle](dwmstatus-mitm.c) 132 * [Disk usage and execute some check at different moments](diskspace_timechk.c) 133 * [FIFO info](fifo.c): Replaces dynamic_info. 134 * [Line per line the content of a file](dynamic_info.c): See 135 tmpinfo function. It prints line after line the content of 136 /tmp/dwmbuf. 137 * [MPD title/artist](mpdstatus.c) 138 * [Number of new mails in a Maildir](mail_counter.c) 139 * [Temperature from /sys on Linux](dwmstatus-temperature.c) 140 * [Uptime](uptime.c) 141 * [Up-, and downspeeds of all network interfaces from /proc/net on Linux](dwmstatus-netusage.c) 142 * [Volume via ALSA API](getvol.c)