Is there a reason you're not just using awesome? -sth
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:44:54 PM PST, dtk wrote: > > is there a way to have widgets in the status bar display images > > instead of utf8 symbols? > > I gave up on this approach for DWM and used dzen2 as my status bar > instead: https://github.com/sunaku/.dwm/blob/master/dwm-statusbar > > (Pictured at bottom of this screenshot: http://ompldr.org/vYnUyNg) > > dzen2 supports XBM and XPM images, which I use from sm4tik's icon set: > https://github.com/sunaku/.dwm/tree/master/dwm-statusbar-icons > > Finally, the SVN version of dzen2 supports clickable areas, so I get > nearly the same level of functionality as I did with WMII's statusbar. > For instance, all of my statusbar widgets refresh the entire statusbar > after their click handler has been executed. > > This makes it feel responsive. For example, if I change the current > song using my MPD statusbar widget, I want to see the new song title > immediately, rather than waiting for the next update (at most, 30 > seconds later). > > Cheers. > > -- > panic: can't find / > > -- --sth
