xtatusbar

Configurable statusbar for Xorg server using xsetroot

Caveats

• Dependencies: Xlib and asoundlib
• Influenced by suckless software (but recompilation not needed).
• This library has been developed on and for Linux following open source philosophy.

Installation

• Using make:

git clone https://github.com/javiorfo/xtatusbar
cd xtatusbar
sudo make clean install

• Using yay (AUR Arch Linux):

yay -S xtatusbar

• In your ~/.xinitrc to start in every login

xtatusbar &

Overview

Component	xtatusbar	NOTE
CPU usage	✔️	percentage
RAM usage	✔️	percentage
TEMPERATURE	✔️	Celcious
DISK USAGE	✔️	percentage
VOLUME LEVEL	✔️	Level and Mute status
BATTERY LEVEL	✔️	percentage
WEATHER	✔️	using wttr and SCRIPT COMPONENT
NETWORK STATUS	✔️	Receive and send packages
DATE	✔️	could be custimizable
SCRIPT COMPONENT	✔️	Shell script

Customizable by parameters

• By default the values by parameters are the following:

// First parameter is a boolean to enable or disable the component
// Second parameter is the time in miliseconds in which every component will get their values
// Third parameter is a string interpolation
// Fifth parameter is the optional configuration file
Group cpu = {true, 2000, "  CPU %d%%", Cpu};
Group ram = {true, 2000, "  RAM %d%%", Ram};
Group temp = {true, 2000, "󰏈  TEMP %d°C", Temperature,
              "/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon1/temp1_input"};
Group disk = {true, 10000, "󰋊  DISK %d%%", Disk};
Group volume = {true, 200, "  VOL %s", Volume};
Group network = {true, 5000, "%s NET", Network};
Group battery = {false, 5000, "  BAT %d%%", Battery,
                     "/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity"};
Group script = {false, 2000, "CUSTOM %s", Script};
Group date = {true, 60000, "  %A %d/%m/%Y %H:%M", Date};
// Separator between components
char *separator = "|";

• Option parameters

Usage:
  xtatusbar [options]

Each component (bat, script, cpu, ram, temp, disk, vol, net, date) supports the following flags:

Available flags:
  --separator               String separator between components
  --{component}-enabled     Boolean (true or false)
  --{component}-time        Time in miliseconds in which the component will refresh
  --{component}-pattern     String pattern to show
  --{bat|temp|script}-file  File path. Only for battery, temperature and script

Screenshots

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