statusbar

Statusbar for window managers that use the root windows WM_TITLE.

Inspired by:

• dwmblocks
• dwm-bar
• slstatus

Usage

Configuration is done via editing the src/blocks.rs file and compiling with cargo build.

The toplevel Cargo.toml includes all available blocks by default in the dependencies list, but ones not in use can be removed.

Features

• date - Current date/time with configurable format
• filesystem
  • Contents of a file
  • Number of files in a directory
• sh - Output of sh -c "code"
• system-resources - Resource utilization of the system
  • CPU Usage
• volume - Volume of default audio device (Currently PulseAudio only)
• keyboard-indicators - Symbols to indicate caps/scroll lock

statuscmd

Some initial support for statuscmd compatability has been implemented, but since I don't actually use that patch myself it's not very fleshed out. Blocks can be given a signal handler, which will get called when statusbar recieved a signal for that blocks index in the blocks array. You can embded the required raw byte in the template string \x01, \x02, etc.

Adding new components

1. Add a new lib crate to the components directory.
2. Add crate to the workspace list in components/Cargo.toml.
3. Add the crate to the dependencies list in Cargo.toml.
4. Implement the new components. Follow the example of one of the others in components. Most of them are very simple.