dwmstatus

A better version of dwmblocks (hopefully...)

Motivation

dwmblocks uses a retarded way to update scripts, requiring commands to send signals to force it to re-run the script. dwmstatus, on other hand, let other programs to send their data at “their pace”, dwmstatus only waits for data and displays accordingly. Specifically, dwmstatus waits for a newline from each program and displays the current line in its position. If one program updates but the other program doesn't, dwmstatus will only update the block.

This C program is so fucking stupid that i don't know why no one actually has thought of this before. Fuck...

Usage

$ dwmstatus
usage: dwmstatus -c command [-c command2 ]...

Every -c argument is a shell script string. The order is reversed.

Example

$ dwmstatus -c 'while true; do date ; sleep 1; done' -c './dwmstatus-pulse'
100 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:05 -03
100 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:06 -03
100 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:07 -03
100 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:08 -03
100 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:09 -03
99 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:09 -03
98 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:09 -03
98 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:09 -03
97 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:09 -03
97 | dom 04 fev 2024 21:36:09 -03

License

This program is licensed with WTFPL.

Contribution

You can send your patches to my e-mail, which is shown in my signed commits, or you can send a pull request. You probably don't want to make a fork of this program to the server where this is originally hosted (git.lain.church) but whatever, do whatever you want, lolololololololol...