onpar

onpar

A dwm bar that is on par with other advanced bars such as i3blocks and polybar

Features

• The ability to schedule running each function independently
• The extensibility to write any script and use its STDOUT and show it on the bar
• Currently shows date and time, battery level, volume level, DarkSky weather forecast, and keyboard layout

Installation

• You need a working Go environment and FontAwesome & icons-in-terminal to show the icons
• Build the Go components in components/ using go build component_name.go
• Add your own components
• You need to use the full path to the components folder or add the components folder to your $PATH
• go build onpar.go to build the main binary
• Add the binary to your $PATH
• Add the path to the binary in your .xinitrc

TODOs

• Make it configurable
• [] Add support for colors
• Add icons
• [] Revisit the use of goroutines and the possibility to use alarm signals instead
• Refactor the code
• [] Add a way to log runtime errors
• [] Add a config file

License

See LICENSE.