Modular status monitor for dwm, written and meant to be extended in C, with features including signaling, clickability, cursor hinting and color.
The project is only meant for people comfortable with the C language. See dwmblocks if you are not one of those.
dsblocks [-d <delimiter>]
Blocks are composed of two functions, one responsible for updating what is shown on the status and the other responsible for handling clicks. Take a look at blocks.h file and files in blocks folder. Functions defined in util.c might prove helpful when adding your own blocks.
The provided blocks and helpers are what I personally use. They may or may not work for others. They are mainly provided for suggestion purposes.
If you want to contribute to the project and have written a block which might prove helpful to others, add a pull request putting your block in contrib folder.
The patches folder contains two patches for dwm, one for dwm already patched with systray patch and the other for dwm without systray. One of the patches, whichever appropriate, is essential for dsblocks to function properly. It will add support for colored text (inspired by statuscolors patch for dwm), clickability (inspired by statuscmd patch for dwm) and cursor hinting when hovering on clickable blocks (inspired by polybar).
To add colors to the status, have your functions output raw characters from '\x0b' to '\x31'. '\x0b' in status text switches the active colorscheme to the first one in the scheme array in dwm and so on. See util.h file and statuscolors patch for more info. Keep in mind that you have to start from '\x0b' instead of '\x01' as instructed on statuscolors patch's page.
To signal a specific block to update, run sigdsblocks <signal> [<sigval>].
<sigval> is optional and must be an integer.
It is a tiny program to get the current root window name. May prove helpful in debugging.
Some ideas and code was taken from other projects. Credits for those go to -
- torrinfail (dwmblocks)
- Daniel Bylinka (statuscmd patch for dwm)
- Jeremy Jay (statuscolors patch for dwm)