OpenBar

openbar is a status bar written in C designed for cwm (or other X11 window managers) on OpenBSD. Any contribution is highly appreciated.

Currently, this project does not support other operating systems, nor does the maintainer have any intention of working on it.

CAVEATS: This version is still in development and testing. It has been tested on a few machines, but it may not work on all systems and could potentially cause issues. Use with caution and at your own risk. Feedback is welcome and appreciated.

Features

openbar currently supports the following features:

• Displaying a "logo" or name
• Hostname
• CPU speed and temperature
• Free memory
• Window ID
• Load average
• Battery status
• Public IP address
• Private IP address
• VPN connection status

If the CPU has no sensors or is not supported, it will display an "x" next to the CPU speed, which is common in VMs or older machines.

Usage

openbar uses a configuration file that should be located in your home directory as .openbar.conf or openbar.conf. If these files are not found in your home directory, openbar will fall back to using the system-wide configuration file located at /etc/openbar.conf. You can find an example configuration file with all available options here:

logo=openbar
date=yes
cpu=yes
bat=yes
mem=yes
load=yes
net=yes
winid=yes
hostname=yes
interface=iwm0
vpn=yes
background=white

The "logo" and "interface" options are configurable. "logo" will display any specified text, and "interface" is used to get the internal IP address of your machine.

The other options are straightforward: set to "yes" to display the information on openbar, and "no" to hide it.

Display

To display openbar in your window manager, create an X11 window to show the output. Add a similar line to your .xsession file:

# run cwm along with openbar
exec cwm & exec openbar

For cwm, you might want to leave a gap at the top of the screen for openbar by adding the following to your .cwmrc file:

gap 20

Dependencies

Currently, curl is required to check your public IP address.

Install it using:

pkg_add curl

Building

All necessary tools are included in your OpenBSD base installation. To clone the repository and build the project, use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/daviduhden/openbar.git

cd openbar

make

Installing

By default, openbar will be installed in /usr/local/bin and the configuration file in /etc/openbar.conf. Ensure you have the appropriate permissions and then run:

make install

Uninstalling

To uninstall openbar, run:

make uninstall