dwm-statusbar

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DWM Statusbar

TODO

• passive listener for solaar

Description

A simple statusbar for dwm (6.2) written in go without using external commands.

With support for multiple batteries, thermal monitors, pulseaudio streams, mpris metadata, systemd service monitoring.

Dependencies:

• ttf-font-awesome
• github.com/godbus/dbus (for dbus communication - pulseaudio, service monitoring)
• github.com/sqp/pulseaudio (to communicate with the pulseaudio daemon)
• github.com/jezek/xgb (to avoid using xsetroot as external command)

Example output (there are more colors in use depending on the sensor levels):

Install

git clone, configure, go install. Done.

To use the Solaar component for battery status, you need to enable a service running the script scripts/solaar_dbus.py, which uses the solaar libraries to provide a DBus service.

Since this bar uses colors, draws stuff and uses two bars this patch dwm-status2d-extrabar-6.2.diff is highly recommended: https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/status2d/

I use a slightly modified version of the patch which allows you to use a configurable amount of additional bars that are automatically hidden when there is nothing to display (statusbar can not handle this yet, I only use 1 bar at the moment) or manually reduced if you press a shortcut. It also fixes a calculation bug in status2d which prevented the ClkStatusText button press from working and crashes on incomplete formatting input. Diffs for 6.2 and current master are in diffs/, if you find them useful feel free to submit them to the official patches pages.

If you don't want to use two separate bars use only one array of components in the inputs in statusbar.go.

If you don't want drawings and colors use the -nodraw flag.

Config

Outputs are configured in statusbar.go with refresh interval in miliseconds. The interval is passed to the component function. There is an additional baseInterval which limits the update rate of the bar.

Async components have a register function and use a channel to instantly update the statusbar.

Copy the config.def.go in the components folder to config.go and remove the first line.

Where to find configuration values:

• The hwmon names found in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/name. All available inputs are used.
• Pulseaudio device pacmd list-sinks | grep 'name:'
• Pulseaudio headphone port pacmd list-sinks | grep ports -A 20. Most likely analog-output-headphones
• Pulseaudio sink path pacmd list-sinks | grep 'index:' /org/pulseaudio/core1/sinkX
• Network VPN services (names from systemctl)
• Network VPN services property/required value: d-feet or gdbus introspect --session --dest=org.freedesktop.systemd1 --object-path /org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/unit_2eservice