dwmblocks
Modular status bar for dwm written in c. (by torrinfail)
picom
A lightweight compositor for X11 (by yshui)
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| 12 | 109 | |
| 452 | 3,829 | |
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| 2.1 | 9.7 | |
| 4 months ago | about 17 hours ago | |
| C | C | |
| ISC License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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dwmblocks
Posts with mentions or reviews of dwmblocks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-07.
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Status bar : dwmblocks
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Pre-configured dock panel
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"
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colored statusbar in dwm w/ statuscolor
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:
- Best way to make slstatus responsive to volume changes?
- DWM minimal status bar
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slstatus dots
I use this https://github.com/torrinfail/dwmblocks, this will take care of slstatus stuff for you.
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Help with clickable blocks[DWMBLOCKS]
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.
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clickable blocks
At the moment in trying to patch the torrinfail version.
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change default bar to just center date & time
To update the status you can use a shell script see the suckless site. or use an external program such as dwmblocks.
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How are you restarting your dwmbar?
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.
picom
Posts with mentions or reviews of picom.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-18.
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Can't find picom and polybar default config files
(https://github.com/yshui/picom/blob/next/picom.sample.conf)
- ArchLinux sluggish on 4K monitor
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[photo] installing Debian :)
Also I took a census and zero founding members of NWA are "straight outta Picom". That's right, you heard it here first: Not even MC Ren is running Picom.
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FPS drops when scrolling in monocle layout with Picom
Update: after reporting in picom GitHub repo this is temporarily solved by using --no-frame-pacing. Looks like a recent commit causes this. You can view the discussion here: https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1072
- Zoom in and zoom out in dwm?
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Compositor Options for Animations
NEED HELP TESTING (write your issues here): https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/1052
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Compositor : picom
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In Picom with the rounded-corners setting how do you apply alpha to the menu list?
It looks like this was identified and the repo corrected in Jan (https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/808) but the NixOS package has not been updated since Nov.
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I have two Linux computers which I use for gaming.... somehow the one with slightly inferior hardware gets significantly better performance. I'm trying to figure out why... any ideas?
If you have compositing you are likely using picom. You can check if it's running with ps -A | grep picom. I've never dealt with this issue as I don't really game on linux often, but I'm sure there's a solution somewhere in the github docs or issues. Worst case scenario you could always just kill the process with killall picom whenever you're about to game, and re-enable it with picom -b after. Do note though that currently running windows might bug out a bit when you kill/start the compositor.
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What are WSL limitations compared with a pure linux install?
Picom is broken for me with GLX backend related Github issue.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing dwmblocks and picom you can also consider the following projects:
dwmblocks-async - An efficient, lean, and asynchronous status feed generator for dwm.
compton - A lightweight compositor for X11 [Moved to: https://github.com/yshui/picom]
scripts - *Well documented* scripts exploiting some useful UNIX utilities.
compton - A compositor for X11.
spaceduck - 🚀 🦆 An intergalactic space theme for Vim, Terminal, and more!
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork)
dwm - Luke's build of dwm
wayward - Fast desktop shell for wayland and weston.
bottom - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
ufetch
void-packages - The Void source packages collection