On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Le Tian wrote:
Hi again, I'm trying to find out how to make a custom status bar in wmii. I
have found "status()" lines in /home/wmii.rc file(hmmm what is it doing
here?!)
Maybe your '$HOME' env var was unset or improperly set at some point?
these is what I found:
status() {
Action status
if wmiir remove /rbar/status 2>/dev/null; then
echo "$WMII_NORMCOLORS" | wmiir create /rbar/status
while status | wmiir write /rbar/status; do
Action status &
I can barely understand it.
Posting a 'grep' without context is pretty worthless. The only section you
should care about is the part starting at 'status() {'.
So if anyone had an experience in setting up his custom bar, could you
please tip me how to do it, cause I don't know where to look else.
Look in the actual file, not the grep, and you should see something like:
# Status Bar Info
status() {
echo -n $(uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g') '|' $(date)
}
(I think that's the default for some version or another...)
The point is that whatever's in the function is what gets run each time the
status is updated.
If the custom script you mentioned in the first post is called do-the-thing,
and it's in your $PATH and executable, just change those four lines to:
# Status Bar Info
status() {
do-the-thing
}
--
Best,
Ben
Tian,
Here is a copy of my wmiirc_local including the status bar detail (the
variables at the top refer to key-bindings I set in the main wmiirc so that
all users get access to them and can customise the apps they use, I also
have autocutsel launch when I login so that parcellite and the term
clipboards are kept in sync
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
MODKEY=Mod4
WEB_BROWSER=jumanji
IRC_CLIENT="uxterm-256color" -e weechat-curses
EMAIL_CLIENT="uxterm-256color" -e alpine
#IRC_CLIENT="xterm +bdc -ai -vb +dc -bg black -fg green -e weechat-curses"
#EMAIL_CLIENT="xterm +bdc -ai -vb +dc -bg black -fg green -e alpine"
eval volti &
eval net_applet &
eval parcellite &
# Personised Colour
export WMII_NORMCOLORS='#bbc5ff #010101 #285577'
export WMII_FOCUSCOLORS='#a0ff00 #010101 #000000'
export WMII_BACKGROUND='#000000'
#export WMII_BACKGROUND='#010101'
#export WMII_FONT='-*-Sans-medium-r-*-*-9-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
export WMII_FONT='-*-liberation sans-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*'
export WMII_TERM="uxterm -bg black -fg green"
#export WMII_TERM=st
# Status Bar Info for thinkpad
status() {
echo -n label ' Wlan0:' $(/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep
Quality) 'IP:' $(/sbin/ifconfig wlan0 | grep 'inet addr' | sed 's/\s*inet
addr://' | sed 's/ .*$//') '|' 'Bat:' $(acpi -b | sed 's/\s*Battery
0:\s*[a-zA-Z]*, //' | sed 's/,.*$//')' |' ' CPU:' $(cat /proc/cpuinfo |
grep 'cpu MHz' | sed 's/.*: //g; s/\..*//g;')'MHz ''Temp:'$(awk '{print
$2}' /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal)C' | ''Vol:' $(aumix-text -q | grep vol |
sed 's/vol [0-9]*, //' | sed 's/, P//')' | ' $(date +"%A %d %B %H:%M ")
}
#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Which looks like this:
http://postimage.org/image/2o9ibfu5g/
I hope this helps you out.
Jase
