For those who might be looking for an xsetroot approach for use on their dwm status bar, I made some mods (to a script from clusterF on BunsenLabs). The below script reflects my (peculiar) needs and are running on my dwm (MX-Linux 21 b2) setup.
Included below is a requisite scrot for ‘proof-of-life’.
The xsetroot script I use follows (note: the ? are missing glyphs) :
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# original script created by clusterF modified
# by ManyRoads
#
while true; do
date '+? %a. %d %b. ? %R ' > /tmp/CurTime.tmp
sleep 60s
done &
while true; do
LOCALTIME=$(< /tmp/CurTime.tmp)
DB=$(dropbox status)
VOL=$(pamixer --get-volume-human)
MEM=$(free -h --kilo | awk '/^Mem:/ {print $3 "/" $2}')
CPU=$(top -bn1 | grep "Cpu(s)" | sed "s/.*, *\([0-9.]*\)%* id.*/\1/" | awk '{print 100 - $1}' )
TEMP=$(sensors|grep 'Core 0'|awk '{print $3}' )
DISK=$(df -Ph | grep "/dev/nvme0n1p2" | awk {'print $5'})
WIFI=$(nmcli -f ACTIVE,SIGNAL dev wifi list | awk '$1=="yes" {print $2}')
xsetroot -name " ? $MEM ? ? $CPU% ?? $TEMP ? ? $DISK ? ? $VOL ? ? $WIFI% ? ? $DB ? $LOCALTIME ? ? ? ?"
sleep 10s
done &
Because the glyphs (fontawesome) get hosed up on this site, here is my xsetroot script (complete).
The script is called from my dwm-autoart script:
! /bin/sh # # dwm autostart, etc. # # Numerous functions (autostart) are located in .xsessionrc (Debian) .xprofile (arch) # including power management, polkit, dropbox, f.lux, dunst etc. # slstatus # slstatus & # conky pkill conky conky -c ~/.local/bin/Suckless/dwm/conky/.dwm-1rc & conky -c ~/.local/bin/Suckless/dwm/conky/.dwm-2rc & ~/.local/share/scripts/xsetroot.sh & #start dwm exec dwm
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