Amchik / dwm-status

🪐 Dumb utility to generate simple dwm status

dwm-status

Not suckless way, but suckless way sucks.

Building & Usage

See mk.conf for build options.

Build: $ ./make

Usage: ./dwm-status -h|-v
       ./dwm-status -g
       ./dwm-status

  -g   Debug mode. Do not run xsetroot and print result to stdout.
  -d   Run as daemon.
  -h   Shows help message (this message) and exit.
  -v   Shows dwm-status version and exit.

Run as daemon (detach from terminal): ./dwm-status -d

Patches

Ok, may be it use some suckless things, like patches.

List: patch Patch, that never be merged

Create PR with label patch, to apply it use .diff links. (like https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/684.diff)

Writing module

Create new file in s/m/0000-mymodule.c. First 4 digits is a priority.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <time.h>

/* see more docs here: */
#include "../h/smod.h"

static int get_status(char *str) {
  time_t _tm = time(0);
  struct tm tm = *localtime(&_tm);

  sprintf(str, "%.2d:%.2d",
      tm.tm_hour, tm.tm_min);

  return 0; /* get_status() must return 0 */
  /* also, if it return non-zero code,
   * it will be displayed with -g argument */
}

static void init(smod_config_t *cfg) {
  cfg->get_status = get_status; /* get_status() handler */
  cfg->status_length = 60; /* status length (wow) */
  cfg->refresh_rate = 1; /* refreshes every 1 * 25ms */
}

MODULE(mymodule /* CHANGE IT! */, init);
/*
 * More (uncommented) examples in s/m/*.c
 */

To-Do

• Man Page
• s/h/config.h with some consts like SEPARATOR