integrated status text

Description

Allows dwm to handle the text by itself. You can think of it like a dwmblocks integration into dwm itself. This is extracted from demwm, dwm fork[0], in which you can find even more information.

Example:

/* fg         command             interval  signal */
{ "#000000",  "echo 'dwm block!",   10,       3},

fg: the foreground color of the individual block, for the background it uses the bg of SchemeStatus. You can swap behaviour uncommenting a comment in dwm.c (search for 'uncomment to inverse the colors')
command: it uses the output of the commands for the status text interval: in seconds, how much does it have to pass before updating the block.
interval: in seconds, how many seconds until the block it's updated
signal: have to be less than 30. This lets you update the block with kill by adding 35 to this value. For the block above it would be 34 + 3 = 37 -> kill -37 $(pidof dwm). These signals are linux dependant.

You can change $(pidof dwm) with $STATUSBAR to 'fix' signaling multiple instances of dwm, since this patch also wraps the PID of dwm into the $STATUSBAR enviromental variable.

Last thing, mouse actions. For this you need to handle the env variable $BLOCK_BUTTON in a script, this is so you can easily reuse the scripts used in dwmblocks. And remember that mouse actions update the block.

[0] https://github.com/explosion-mental/demwm or https://codeberg.org/explosion-mental/demwm

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explosion-mental - explosion0mental@gmail.com