Re: [dev] coloring in the status bar

2009-08-31 Thread Kris Maglione
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 04:02:27PM -0400, gnuisancev3 wrote: Doing a wmiir create /rbar/foo #00 #ff #aa Foo doesn't really do anything, it just hangs there and I have the C-c to cancel the operation and I'm kinda confused about how this works in conjunction with wmiirc to begin with

Re: [dev] coloring in the status bar

2009-08-31 Thread Aurélien Aptel
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:02 PM, gnuisancev3 wrote: > All I want to color is the text for the text "Unread:", "Now > Playing:", etc.   But it seems not to accept bash color codes. > > Doing a wmiir create /rbar/foo #00 #ff #aa Foo   doesn't > really do anything, it just hangs there and

Re: [dev] coloring in the status bar

2009-08-31 Thread gnuisancev3
I'm a bit lost, I read section 6 of the wmii manual: http://code.suckless.org/contrib/guide/wmii-3/guide-en/guide_en and am still a bit lost. my ~/.wmii-3.5/wmiirc has the following in it status() { echo -n Unread: $(~/bin/get_gmail) '|' Now Playing: $(~/bin/mpd_nowplaying.sh) '|' IP:

Re: [dev] coloring in the status bar

2009-08-31 Thread Aurélien Aptel
Create a bar with its own colours (see Kris' message) for each status info you want. On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Kris Maglione wrote: > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:02:08PM -0400, gnuisancev3 wrote: >> >> is there a way to format text by coloring it in the ~/wmii-3.5/wmiirc >> file.  I have a

Re: [dev] coloring in the status bar

2009-08-30 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 01:02:08PM -0400, gnuisancev3 wrote: is there a way to format text by coloring it in the ~/wmii-3.5/wmiirc file. I have a good deal of info in my statusbar (mpd info, # of unread emails, disk usage, RAM/swap info, etc..) and would like to make it a bit more legible but I