dwm-bar VS dwmblocks-async

Compare dwm-bar vs dwmblocks-async and see what are their differences.

dwm-bar

simplest unclickable dwm status bar (by whoisYoges)

dwmblocks-async

An efficient, lean, and asynchronous status feed generator for dwm. (by UtkarshVerma)
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0.8 6.0
almost 2 years ago 10 days ago
Shell C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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dwm-bar

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

dwmblocks-async

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  • How to make dwmblocks update when i press volume key or brightness keys.
    2 projects | /r/dwm | 13 Jun 2023
    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.
  • Xfce is undefeatable
    2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 24 Feb 2023
    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.
  • dwmblocks doesn't show up anywhere
    3 projects | /r/suckless | 8 Nov 2022
    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!
    3 projects | /r/suckless | 8 Nov 2022
    I've also tried this version, it doesn't show anything either. I have gone through it beforehttps://github.com/UtkarshVerma/dwmblocks-async.
  • dwmblocks-async: An asynchronous, clickable statusbar for dwm
    2 projects | /r/suckless | 12 Oct 2021
    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:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dwm-bar and dwmblocks-async you can also consider the following projects:

dwmblocks - Modular status bar for dwm written in c.

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

dwmblocks - My status bar: my build of the modular dwmblocks

libxft-bgra - A patched version of libxft that allows for colored emojis to be rendered in Suckless software (dmenu/st/whatever).

modwm - MODWM - Modular Dynamic Window Manager

GUIDE_how-to-install-dwm-in-qubesos - [Guide] How to install suckless' dwm in QubesOS

dwm-vanitygaps - My dwm vanitygaps build (incl. individual patches)

dwm-bar - A modular statusbar for dwm

voidwm - voidwm • sanely patched dwm

scripts - *Well documented* scripts exploiting some useful UNIX utilities.

dwm - Downstream build of the suckless window manager, dwm