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slstatus - suckless status
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slstatus is a suckless status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME
(e.g. dwm) or stdin to fill the status bar.
Features
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- Battery percentage/state/time left
- Cat (read file)
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- CPU usage
- CPU frequency
- 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)
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- Kernel version
- Keyboard indicators
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- Keymap
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- Load average
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- Network speeds (RX and TX)
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- 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
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- Volume percentage
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- WiFi signal percentage and ESSID
Requirements
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Currently slstatus works on FreeBSD, Linux and OpenBSD.
In order to build slstatus you need the Xlib header files.
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- For volume percentage on Linux the kernel module `snd-mixer-oss` must be
loaded.
- For volume percentage on FreeBSD, `sndio` must be installed.
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Installation
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Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slstatus is installed into the
/usr/local namespace by default).
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Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slstatus (if
necessary as root):
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make clean install
Running slstatus
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See the man page for details.
Configuration
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slstatus can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
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Upcoming
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A first feature-complete release with official packages for common distributions
will come soon.