That's great. I actually joined this mailing list recently, because of finding out about "ii". It's nice to see another project doing something similar.
On 22 Oct 2021, at 15:07, dev mail list wrote: > Hello fellow dislikers of sucking! > > After a lot of suckfull experiments (archived at > https://github.com/xandkar/khatus/), I've finally settled on what it is > that I would even want from a status bar thingie - I want ii, but for my > status bar. Here's my take on it: > > https://github.com/xandkar/pista > > I've been dogfooding/beta-testing pista for almost 2 years now, and > while there's certainly improvements that can be made - it reliably does > pretty much what I want. > > Any constructive criticism is highly appreciated! > > The main design idea is this: asynchronously read lines from N FIFOs and > route to N corresponding slots on the bar: > > b +--------------+--------------+- ... ---+-------------+ > a | slot_1 | slot_2 | | slot_N | > r +--------------+--------------+- ... ---+-------------+ > ^ ^ ^ > | | | > +-+ +-+ +-+ > | | | | | | > |F| |F| |F| > |I| |I| |I| > |F| |F| |F| > |O| |O| |O| > | | | | | | > |1| |2| |N| > | | | | | | > +-+ +-+ +-+ > ^ ^ ^ > | | | > process_1 process_2 ... process_N > > > Each slot is given a TTL, after which, if there was no update - the slot > is cleared - helping you spot broken sensors and not fool yourself with > stale data. > > What is a sensor? Anything that outputs lines of text. > What goes into a FIFO? Lines of text. > > Here're the "sensors" that I currently use (which are still in flux and > not quite suckless yet): > > https://github.com/xandkar/pista-sensors > > I launch it all via a script such as this: > https://github.com/xandkar/pista-sensors/blob/master/example-via-tmux > > which I call from ~/.xinitrc > > Running it from tmux has been great - I can do runtime reconfiguration, > stop, restart the whole thing, can attach and stop/restart and or tweak > individual sensor processes, etc. - all without relaunching X. > > This also makes it easy to do one-off experiments as well as temporarily > disabling things (like if I want to completely disable the weather > fetcher while I know I'm going to be offline for a long time). > > -- xand -- Alan Morgan
