stringbar

A dwm-style status bar (sets X root window name).

Features

• Configurable layout
• Hot config reloading

Runtime Dependencies

• xsetroot

Installation

Using cargo

Execute cargo install stringbar

From source (x86_64 Linux only)

Build Dependencies

• Just
• UPX

Building

Execute just release and copy the resulting ./stringbar binary to a directory in $PATH.

Configuration

• Start stringbar once to generate the default configuration file.
• Edit $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/stringbar/config.ron

Available modules

Name	Description
CpuUsage	Cpu utilization in percent
MemoryUsage	Memory usage out of total
SwapUsage	Swap usage out of total
Timestamp	A custom formatted timestamp
ProcessCount	Number of processes running
DiskUsage	Amount of space used out of total on a specific disk
DiskUsageTotal	Total amount of space used out of total on all storage devices

Example

#![enable(implicit_some)]
#![enable(unwrap_newtypes)]
#![enable(unwrap_variant_newtypes)]
(
    separator: " | ",
    update_interval_ms: 1000,
    decimal_data_units: false,
    sections: [
        (
            module: MemoryUsage,
            decoration: (
                before: "dram ",
                after: None,
            ),
        ),
        (
            module: DiskUsage(
                name: "/dev/sda",
            ),
            decoration: (
                before: "sda ",
                after: None,
            ),
        ),
        (
            module: DiskUsageTotal(
                include_removables: false,
            ),
            decoration: (
                before: "total ",
                after: None,
            ),
        ),
        (
            module: Timestamp(
                template: "%d/%m/%Y %H:%M",
            ),
            decoration: (
                before: None,
                after: None,
            ),
        ),
    ],
)