Bar for bspwm

Attius_Sullivan · 2020-04-03 23:23:52

Hi there,

currently I'm looking for a bar/pannel for bspwm that can do something like dwmblocks or i3blocks so that I can update each block independently (more responsive when e.g. changing the volume). In addition it would be nice if the bar/pannel would just take the stdout of some commands/scripts that are called by the bar/pannel, take that and displays it (as I already have all the scripts I need).

Any suggestions?

Trilby · 2020-04-04 00:45:00

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bspwm#Panels

I'm pretty sure lemonbar can be fed content from dwmblocks or potentially i3blocks as well.

Attius_Sullivan · 2020-04-04 13:58:57

I think not by dwmblocks directly since this sets the root windowname per default (no output on stdout (might be possible with editiing the source cods) what lemonbar requires as far as I can tell) but i3blocks might work.

So feeding the i3blocks output to lemonbar is indead an option on the other side it would be nice if there were something out there that does both in one (since then the whole thing might be more efficient). So I think I'll use i3blocks as long as I find nothing other out there (so suggestions are still welcome

Trilby · 2020-04-04 14:00:47

There are countless others, conky is commonly used. But you said you wanted something like i3blocks. It doesn't get much more like i3blocks than i3blocks.

There is no need for a panel/bar to be made for your WM. They are modular tools, just look for one you like and use it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … r#Taskbars

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Attius_Sullivan · 2020-04-05 12:25:43

Trilby wrote:

But you said you wanted something like i3blocks. It doesn't get much more like i3blocks than i3blocks.

Well it should only be like it in the point that the blocks should be able made updatable independently.

Trilby wrote:

There is no need for a panel/bar to be made for your WM. They are modular tools, just look for one you like and use it.

What do you mean by that? That no bar would be an Option too and checking the information otherwise displayed in the bar manually?

Slithery · 2020-04-05 12:30:20

Attius_Sullivan wrote:

What do you mean by that? That no bar would be an Option too and checking the information otherwise displayed in the bar manually?

No. He means that bars aren't WM specific, you can use any of them.

Attius_Sullivan · 2020-04-05 12:49:00

Ah ok I understand.

Sorry to bother you again, but I just wanted to try lemonbar from the AUR but somehow it is flagged out of date (since 2018-07-12, that is over one and a half year!!!). Does someone know why? (the last commit in the git repo is from Jan 15, 2018) Is lemonbar not developed anymore?

Trilby · 2020-04-05 13:23:39

I don't have any direct experience with lemonbar. But I do know it was relatively popular for a while.

To answer your specific questions, it was flagged out of date because the person who flagged it is a moron. "Out of date" flags are almost completely meaningless. People often use them because they're just in a bad mood it would seem. It does indicate that someone, once upon a time, was in some way unhappy with the lemonbar AUR package. Perhaps this means it didn't build, or it didn't work properly - but more likely it means that that person was, again, just a moron. Don't read too much into it.

As for not being updated in a year and a half, so what? The window manager I use hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. Once software is feature complete, it does not need updates - especially if it is well written and simple enough to not break due to simple changes in other software.

Some developers are compelled to continue changing software once it does everything it is supposed to. The end result is the addition of new bugs.

Now, does lemonbar still work? I have no idea. Try it. But the date of the last commit doesn't really provide any answer to that. Trying it will.

Attius_Sullivan · 2020-04-05 13:36:29

Oh well I always thought that the out of date flag would really mean something (even though when I flagged once a package out of date (with a real reason) it was removed a few days later, but thats off topic here

So I think I'll try lemonbar.

Trilby wrote:

As for not being updated in a year and a half, so what? The window manager I use hasn't been updated in almost 2 years. Once software is feature complete, it does not need updates - especially if it is well written and simple enough to not break due to simple changes in other software.

Yes of course I just think once upon a time most developers look again in their old code and see some things they might want to change (but this of course doesn't have to be always

Trilby wrote:

Some developers are compelled to continue changing software once it does everything it is supposed to. The end result is the addition of new bugs.

xD

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