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dualstatus
Description
This patch enables an additional status bar in DWM. The extra bar can be toggled together with the standard bar or independently.
You can set the status bar text as follows:
xsetroot -name "top text;bottom text"
Download
- dwm-dualstatus-20251003-89e0350.diff (20251003)
- dwm-dualstatus-6.1.diff (4683b) (20151110)
- dwm-dualstatus-6.0.diff (4794b) (20130908)
Screenshot
A simple dual status bar

Authors
- Andrew Milkovich - amilkovich@gmail.com
- Nahyan Siddiqui - nahyanl63@gmail.com
- EL Bachir - bachiralfa@gmail.com