slstatus - suckless status ========================== slstatus is a suckless status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME (e.g. dwm) or stdin to fill the status bar. Features -------- - Battery percentage/power/state - CPU usage - CPU frequency - CPU iowait - Custom shell commands - Date and time - Disk status (free storage, percentage, total storage and used storage) - Available entropy - Username/GID/UID - Hostname - IP address (IPv4 and IPv6) - Kernel version - Keyboard indicators - Load average - Number of files in a directory (hint: Maildir) - Memory status (free memory, percentage, total memory and used memory) - Swap status (free swap, percentage, total swap and used swap) - Temperature - Uptime - Volume percentage (OSS/ALSA) - WiFi signal percentage and ESSID Requirements ------------ In order to build slstatus you need the Xlib header files and optionally ALSA for volume percentage. PulseAudio is not supported for various reasons. Installation ------------ Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slstatus is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default). Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slstatus (if necessary as root): make clean install Running slstatus ---------------- See the man page for details. Configuration ------------- slstatus can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple. Todo ---- Porting to OpenBSD is the current goal before thinking about a release.