dwmblocks VS dwmblocks-async

Status bar : dwmblocks

dwmblocks: a clickable dwm statusbar written in c. would require some scripting and learning on your part. prob the only way you can get axactly what you are asking for outside of the look while remaining "suckless"

I just patched statuscolors to my dwm build with the aim of bringing colors to my statusbar (I use dwmblocks). I want to achieve something aesthetically similar to bumblebee-status, with each statusbar block appearing in a different color. As explained in the patch documentation, I defined an array of colors in my dwm config, something like this:

I use this https://github.com/torrinfail/dwmblocks, this will take care of slstatus stuff for you.

As of now, I have the official vanilla dwm, with just the statuscmd patch, AND vanilla dwmblocks from torrinfail, also with the statuscmd patch made for it. I'm having trouble understanding how to configure clickable modules.

At the moment in trying to patch the torrinfail version.

To update the status you can use a shell script see the suckless site. or use an external program such as dwmblocks.

Need suggestion on how are you restarting your dwm status bar set with xsetroot and not the classic dwmblocks. I have a script dwmbar which loads the status bar. Then I use another script which reloads the status bar whenever I press volume key, which takes significant time.

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: