README.md

astatbar

About: astatbar is a statusbar replacement for dwm

Contributing: There is still a ton of work to be done. Although this is not designed to be an advanced statusbar, I want this to be usable for most people. Please provide pull requests and feedback for my consideration.

To Do/Wishlist:

• Configuration File
• Unified Source File
• Volume Support
• Network Detection
• Easier way to move statusbar elements around without extensive source code editing

IDEA:

in config.h:
...
#DEFINE STATUSBAR_ELEMENTS_"whatever number you want";
char element1[] = date;
char element2[] = battery;
...

in astatbar.c:
...
#ifdef STATUSBAR_ELEMENTS_1
  printf("%s", element1);
#endif
...

• Setting root window without xsetroot
• OpenBSD and FreeBSD support (totally not an OpenBSD fanboy at all ;) )

Installing:

1. Download the file corresponding to your computer.
2. Run the following command:

GCC (Linux):

gcc -std=c99 -O3 -march=native -flto=$(nproc) -o ~/.astatbar astatbar*.c

Clang (OpenBSD):

clang -std=c99 -O3 -march=native -o ~/.astatbar astatbar*.c

Note: Passing -O3, -march=native, and -flto are optional but could slightly improve the speed of the program.

3. Add the following to your .xinitrc (Linux) or .xsession (OpenBSD):

while true; do
  xsetroot -name "$(./.astatbar)"
  sleep 1
done &

Note: Set sleep to the frequency you want the statusbar to refresh. In this example, it is once per second.

4. Reload dwm.