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Description

Allows dwm to handle the text by itself This is a dwmblocks integration into dwm itself. You can update the blocks only with signals of with mouseclicks. The 'interval' value does nothing and is meant to be there to 're-use' on future patches. You can checkout my build with more features like 'async' updates https://codeberg.org/explosion-mental/Dwm, which is were I'm extracting this patch, if you want a much better experience.

What you need to know:

This patch makes dwm sets a enviromental variable with the PID of itself to be more 'friendly'. With this you can do kill -35 $STATUSBAR, which updates block with signal 1 (34 + signal of the block)
Other way to update a block is inside dwm itself, with the updateblock function. It accepts an unsigned int (non negative) number which value indicates the signal of the block you want to update.
Mouse clicks are handled with sendstatusbar (a mouse function only!) which accepts the value that you want to pass to the block command as a 'variable' called BLOCK_BUTTON, which should be handled in the script (block command)
Since this uses real time signals to handle the updates, shouldn't work in openbsd, but I could be wrong.

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Authors

explosion-mental - explosion0mental@gmail.com