slstatus VS eww

Compare slstatus vs eww and see what are their differences.

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slstatus eww
3 115
207 8,434
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4.0 8.4
10 months ago 6 days ago
C Rust
ISC License MIT License
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slstatus

Posts with mentions or reviews of slstatus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-28.
  • Introduction
    9 projects | dev.to | 28 Oct 2023
    top bar is slstatus. wallpaper: Fantasy Lord of the Rings HD Wallpaper by Marcus Whinney
  • Pre-configured dock panel
    2 projects | /r/dwm | 13 Dec 2022
    slstatus: another dwm status bar that i don't think is clickable
  • Helping a newbie
    6 projects | /r/suckless | 7 Oct 2021
    For different system monitors, there are also different approaches. I just use `slstatus` (https://github.com/drkhsh/slstatus). I've heard a lot of good stuff about Eww (https://github.com/elkowar/eww) but never tried it myself.

eww

Posts with mentions or reviews of eww. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing slstatus and eww you can also consider the following projects:

dwm-flexipatch - A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

my_dwm_setup - DWM (Dynamic Window Manager) setup, that works best for me. The following suckless patches included: systray, griidmode, pertag. Additional functions implemented: findwin ([MOD+'] find a window by title using dmenu), run_app ([MOD+p] execute an application from a .desktop files cache), findcurwin ([MOD+Shift+f] find the first tag, containing the currently focused window and switch to it; useful when using grid setup on tag 0 as overview to jump back to a selected window), nexttag ([MOD+,], [MOD+.] switching to next/previous tag/tagset).

conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

dwmblocks - Modular status bar for dwm written in c.

rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.

wolf - Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker

rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement

Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.

pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.

bumblebee-status - bumblebee-status is a modular, theme-able status line generator for the i3 window manager.