slstatus is a small tool for providing system status information to other programs over the EWMH property of the root window (used by dwm(1)) or standard input/output. It is designed to be as efficient as possible by only issuing the minimum of system calls required.
- Battery percentage/state/time left
- Cat (read file)
- CPU usage
- CPU frequency
- Custom shell commands
- Date and time
- Disk status (free storage, percentage, total storage and used storage)
- Available entropy
- Username/GID/UID
- Hostname
- IP address (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Kernel version
- Keyboard indicators
- Keymap
- Load average
- Network speeds (RX and TX)
- Number of files in a directory (hint: Maildir)
- Memory status (free memory, percentage, total memory and used memory)
- Swap status (free swap, percentage, total swap and used swap)
- Temperature
- Uptime
- Volume percentage
- WiFi signal percentage and ESSID
My personal slstatus I use with my DWM config. This config shows a date and time, battery level, Ram used in percentage, CPU used in percentage, total free space in /home (because OpenBSD uses multiple partitions) and current Upload/Download speeds.
No patches have been applied and non of the stock features are hard removed from the codebase so they can always be enabled easier later on if needed.
Edit config.mk to match your local setup (Currently setup for OpenBSD)
Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slstatus (if necessary as root):
make clean install
See the man page for details.