dwm-bar

A modular statusbar for DWM

Table of Contents

• Features
• Current Functions
  • dwm_alsa
  • dwm_countdown
  • dwm_keyboard
  • dwm_resources
  • dwm_cmus
  • dwm_date
  • dwm_mail
  • dwm_weather
• Installation
• Usage
• Customizing
• Acknowledgements
• More to come!

Features

• Fully modular! If you don't want to use a function, no worries.
• Lightweight! dwm-bar is written entirely in POSIX-compliant shell script so need to install a hundred different packages to get it working.
• Options! You can decide to use either unicode symbols or plaintext for module identifiers with the IDENTIFIER value.

Current Functions

dwm_alsa

Displays the current master volume of ALSA

[🔉 55]

dwm_pulse

Displays the current master volume of PulseAudio

[🔉 55]

Dependencies: alsa-utils

dwm_countdown

Displays the status of countdown

[⏳ 00:10:00]

Dependeincies: [countdown](https://github.com/joestandring/countdown)

dwm_keyboard

Displays the current keyboard layout

[⌨ gb]

Dependencies: xorg-setxkbmap

dwm_resources

Displays information regarding memory, CPU temperature, and storage

[🖥 MEM 1.3Gi/15Gi CPU 45C STO 2.3G/200G: 2%]

dwm_cmus

displays current cmus status, artist, track, position, duration, and shuffle

[▶ The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost 0:43/2:56 🔀]

Dependencies: cmus

dwm_date

Displays the current date and time

[🕰 Mon 06-05-19 21:31:58]

dwm_mail

Displays the current number of emails in an inbox

[📫 2]

dwm_weather

Displays the current weather provided by wttr.in

[☀ +20°C]

Installation

1. Clone and enter the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/joestandring/dwm-bar
$ cd dwm-bar

2. Make the script executable

$ chmod +x dwm_bar.sh

Quick Start

Simply run the script and dwm should display your bar:

$ ./dwm_bar.sh

Most likely, you will need to change some values for functions to get them to work - these are outlined with a comment for functions where this is likely the case. If you would like your bar to be displayed when X starts, add this to your .xinitrc file before launching dwm. For example, if the script is located in /home/$USER/dwm-bar/:

# Statusbar
/home/$USER/dwm-bar/dwm_status.sh &

# Start dwm
exec dwm

Customizing

dwm-bar is completley modular, meaning you can mix and match functions to your hearts content. It's functions are located in the functions/ subdirectory and included in dwm_bar.sh If you want to make your own function, for example dwm_myfunction.sh, you should create it in the functions/ subdirectory before including it in dwm_bar.sh and adding it to the xsetroot command:

# Import the modules
. "$DIR/functions/dwm_myfucntion"

while true
do
    xsetroot -name "$(dwm_myfunction)"
    sleep 1
done

You can also decide to use unicode or plaintext identifiers for functions by altering the $IDENTIFIER value. For example, set to "unicode", dwm_mail will display:

[📫 0]

Whereas, if it is not set it will display:

[MAI 0]

Acknowledgements

Code for some functions was modified from:

• Klemens Nanni
• @boylemic
• Parket Johnson
• suckless.org

More to come!

• dwm_bat function to display battery percentage and status
• dwm_notifs function to show the last recieved notification in the bar
• dwm_bluez function to show currently connected Bluetooth device using bluez
• The ability to show network speeds and SSID in dwm_network