Comments on: DWM: A pretty statusbar

By: w0ng

w0ng — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:31:19 +0000

To get colours piped to the statusbar, you need to use the statuscolours patch. To output the colours, you bash escape sequences, e.g. if I wanted to output something in black in black on yellow (3rd colour definition in the posted config.h), you would pipe it with echo -e “\x03foobar”

To find the unicode or escape chars for the icon glyphs, use something like xorg-xfd or gbdfed or fontforge

By: domac

domac — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 10:26:51 +0000

Hey,
I just applied that patch and everything works well for me. Now I wanted to modify that statusbar to my needs. Can you tell me where to find the commands for the icons (at best to copy&paste) and how to add colors to them?
Thanks!

By: w0ng

w0ng — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:38:02 +0000

I’m guessing it’s because the statusbar script contains some files/variables that are only installed on my comp.

You shouldn’t need any patches for this to work. All you need is to have terminus2 in ~/.fonts.

To test whether the icon glyphs work, test if the statusbar displays fine after changing terminus to terminus2 in config.h.

Next try to display some of the normal chars: e.g.
$ xsetroot -name “abc”

Then try to display some of the icon letters: e.g.
$ xsetroot -name “ÜÜÝ”

Then test each part of dwm-statusbar.bash (e.g. try getting print_datetime() to work and delete everything else).

Note that a much easier alternative could be using conky to display system stats

By: eldamar

eldamar — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:39:58 +0000

I must be doing something wrong because i only get a empty statusbar after trying to use this icon solution, something about the output breaks my bar and everything after an icon or the icon character is not showing up for some reason, even if ii change to a font previosly working i still get nothing. i even tried to build from your PKGBUILD with every patch and the exact same config.h file, still didn’t work for me.