dwmblocks VS dwmblocks-async

I read up on Luke Smith's github repos of dwmblocks, here he states that I have to run the pkill command, but how the hell do I run it? Where do I put it, do I put it on my startup script or do I do something else?

Back when I first moved to dwm, I used Luke's build of dwmblocks. It worked fine but I had noticed two subtle issues with it.

I'm completely stuck on getting his dwmblocks status bar though; I've spent the last 4 days trying to figure it out. https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/dwmblocks

Depends. There are several dwmblocks implementations floating around. I use https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async and it has a signal per block that can be sent with pkill to rerun the script.

Maybe some day I'll finish configuring dwm/dwl and dwmblocks/somebar+someblocks and use it, but even then XFCE will always be my fallback.

Ah yes, correct. The dwmblocks-async author says statuscmd is needed on https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async for clickable blocks. I did pull that in a while ago into my dwm code, but forgot that it's only needed there for clicking. Good call!

I recommend you to use this version of dwmblocks: https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async

https://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async is very nice.

currently i use dwmblocks-async with this configuration:

As these were not hindrances to my work, I've had these on the back burner for quite some time, until today when I humbly present to you dwmblocks-async. It fixes the above-mentioned issues by doing the following: