Boboassa's build of dwmblocks

dwmblocks - the modular status bar for dwm written in c.

There are 3 branches:

• master is for general changes
• laptop is my laptop's build
• desktop is my desktop's build

Requirements

In order to make the bar work correctly you need the scripts that I use (can be found at bin), or provide your own.

Installation

Clone the repository, switch to the appropriate branch and then enter the following command to build and install dwmblocks (if necessary as root):

make clean install

Running dwmblocks

After installing you can put dwmblocks in your xinitrc or other startup script to have it start with dwm.

Modifying blocks

The statusbar is made from text output from commandline programs. Blocks are added and removed by editing the blocks.h header file. By default the blocks.h header file is created the first time you run make which copies the default config from blocks.def.h. This is so you can edit your status bar commands and they will not get overwritten in a future update.

Updating blocks

Most statusbars constantly rerun every script every several seconds to update. This is an option here, but a superior choice is giving your module a signal that you can signal to it to update on a relevant event. For example, the audio module has the update signal 9 by default.

You can also run kill -43 $(pidof dwmblocks) which will have the same effect, but is faster. Just add 34 to your typical signal number.

Acknowledgements

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