It's a simple statusbar I've wrote for use with DWM. I didn't feel like calling to anything too resource-hungry to do it and I also felt compelled to write some C to fulfill my needs.
First off, modify it to whatever point you want, I don't mind, it's MIT and I understand perfectly well that you can write your own and do it better.
It must be also mentioned that BATTERY build option relies on sys FS, so
the feature is Linux only. I love BSDs and all but it was written on a target
machine and I'll probably port it somewhere in the future.
In any case, when you build it, you'll end up with bin/bartitle in dist
directory. Copy it over to /usr/local/bin or use it right away.
The basic build is no-bells-and-whistles. It just results in a bar with a clock
and formats it to BAR_TEMPLATE:
makeIt can also be built with a makeopt to enable certain features. For now it's just an optional battery support, which you can enable if you build with:
make BATTERY=BATTERY_NAME_IN_SYSFSYou can look up the name in /sys/class/power_supply.
Other compile-time options:
BATTERY_POLL_TICK- defines how frequent the battery check is. By default it is set to 5, which makes the battery routine run every 5 ticks where one tick is 0.25s by default.
Once you've got your hands on binary, you can run it:
bartitle # Or ./dist/bin/bartitle if you didn't copy it overThis will run it without disowning. If you want to disown it though, you'd do it like this:
bartitle -dIDK, I don't even know enough C to write it in a "proper" manner, so I just used whatever I know about it in combination with manpages and libX11 source. It was fun and I'll probably extend it if I'll feel like I'd like to. But for now, I don't even know the definition of "poor C" well enough to judge my stuff. :/