dwmblocks

status bar for voidwm

dwmblocks is a modular status bar for dwm written in C.

Getting started

Installation

• Clone the repository and run make:

git clone https://github.com/pixxel8/dwmblocks
cd dwmblocks
sudo make clean install

Running dwmblocks

• Run dwmblocks from your .xinitrc or other startup script to have it start with dwm.

Running scripts

• Copy all scripts to a directory included in your $PATH.

cp scripts/* $HOME/.local/bin

• OR

sudo cp scripts/* /usr/local/bin

Usage

The status bar is made from text output from command line programs. Blocks are added and removed by editing the config.h header file.

Features

• Colored text in status bar with barmodules-status2d patch.
• Colors can be turned off globally by setting enable_status2d to false in status2d settings.
• Use Xresources colors to match colorscheme with other apps, or use pywal generated colors.
• Xresources colors can be disabled by setting enable_Xresources to false in status2d setting.

NOTE: You need to restart dwmblocks after updating Xresources colors, or wait for a block (script) to re-run.