A collection of scripts which give xmobar-formatted output. Useful for displaying status information in your xmobar.
The functions of the various scripts outlined are below. Note that some of them require setup. The scripts are very simple and should be straightforward to modify.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| battery | Uses the acpi command to generate a battery percentage. Green is normal, red is less than 10% remaining, and yellow is charging. No setup required. |
| mail_check | Displays the number of unread messages stored in a local Maildir, or a number of Maildirs. Intended for use with tools like offlineimap and mutt. Note: The script needs to be pointed to the maildirs. |
| music | Gets the currently playing song from either MPD or MOC. Requires the mpc and mocp commands to work with MPD and MOC respectively. Blue is playing, red is paused, and nothing is displayed when music is stopped. No setup is required. |
| volume | Extracts volume information from amixer and /proc. Green is normal, red is muted. Note: you will have to tell the script where in /proc to find the mute status of the relevant sound card. In a future version it will all be done with amixer. |
To use a script, simply add an entry to the "commands" array of your .xmobarrc which looks something like Run Com "/path/to/script" [] "entry_name" 10 and add %entry_name% somewhere in the template string (assuming you're using '%' as a delimiter). An example .xmobarrc follows:
Config { font = "xft:terminus:size=9:antialias=true"
, bgColor = "black"
, fgColor = "grey"
, position = TopSize L 90 17
, lowerOnStart = True
, commands = [ Run StdinReader
, Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50","--low","green","--normal","green","--high","red"] 10
, Run Com "battery" [] "battery" 10
, Run Com "volume" [] "volume" 10
, Run Com "dropbox" ["status"] "dropbox" 50
, Run Com "mail_check" [] "mail" 50
, Run Com "music" [] "music" 10
, Run Date "%a %b %_d %l:%M" "date" 50
]
, sepChar = "&"
, alignSep = "}{"
, template = "&StdinReader& } &music& { &cpu& | Bat: &battery& | Vol: &volume& <fc=lightblue>&dropbox& | Unread: &mail&</fc> <fc=orange>&date&</fc> "
}
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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- Alex Sayers (alex.sayers@gmail.com)