aonemd / onpar

A dwm bar that is on par with other advanced bars such as i3blocks and polybar

onpar

A dwm bar that is on par with other advanced bars such as i3blocks and polybar

Features

• The ability to schedule running each function independently
• The extensibility to write any script and use its STDOUT and show it on the bar
• Currently shows date and time, battery level, volume level, DarkSky weather forecast, keyboard layout, current music track

Requirements

• Go installation
• FontAwesome
• icons-in-terminal

Installation

• Run sudo make install to build the components into a bin/ directory and to copy the executable onpar into /usr/local/bin
• Add the bin/ directory to your $PATH
• Run make run to run the executable

Customization

• To start onpar with system startup, Add onpar& to your .xinitrc or to your system's startup config file
• To add more components, add them to components directory, and call them in the code of onpar, then redo the installation steps

TODOs

• Make it configurable
• [] Add support for colors
• Add icons
• [] Revisit the use of goroutines and the possibility to use alarm signals instead
• Refactor the code
• [] Add a way to log runtime errors
• [] Add a config file

License

See LICENSE.