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# A selection of information output tools for dmenu

These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information 
about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. `volume` have options (up, down, mute...) 
which are selectable options in dmenu.  

## Tools
- `pingclock`        performs a single `ping` to a server and returns the response time
- `battery`          shows the current battery level
- `brightness`       shows the current backlight level and gives options to adjust it
- `volume`           shows the current volume level and gives options to adjust and manage it
- `date`             shows the date
- `fuzzytime`        shows the fuzzytime clock
- `wlan`             shows the state of the wireless network interface. SSID connected to and signal level.
- `nic`              shows the status and/or the ip address of the network interface card
- `temperature`      shows the current CPU temperature
- `notes`            a simple one liner note taking tool, displaying notes in `dmenu`/`rofi`  

The next two do not work with `rofi` unless you have `alias dmenu=rofi` set, but they're pretty nice tools  

- `passmenu_wrapper` a wrapper for passmenu. It basically just styles `passmenu` with no other features
- `command_wrapper`  inspired by passmenu_wrapper, a basic tool to run other `dmenu` related tools with uniform styling
  * for example: `dmenu_run`, `clipmenu`, `passmenu` etc.
### Example in `dmenu`:

![dmenu_tools](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/167123173-ee8092a2-d5ab-47b4-b207-ced328072cc0.gif)

### Example of `command_wrapper` with `clipmenu`

![command_wrap](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/167122436-eea0be88-a929-46e8-9b4d-cb677dcb129c.gif)

## How to compile
There are some configuration variables explicit to me, you'll need to change them for you for them to be useful I imagine.  
Configuration variables are compile - there are no config files or runtime parameters (except for "rofi")  

Each tool is compiled separately, for example:
```nim
nim c pingclock
```
and then run with
```sh
./pingclock 
or
./pingclock rofi
```

## How to use
Personally, I have these bound to key combinations in i3. 
In fact, I have a seperate `bindsym` mode in which all these 
tools are accessible i.e. `$mod+i` to get to "info" mode then `p` to show pingclock.  
It's completely up to you how to run them, they're just simple CLI tools really.
  
### You can also set the volume and brightness levels by typing a numeric figure into the dmenu/rofi input box  

## Dependencies
- `dmenu` or `rofi`
- `yad` for calendar
- `passmenu` for passmenu_wrapper
- basically any tool that's used to gather the information.
- "tools" for audio etc. (`pamixer`, `ncpamixer`, etc.) can be set in the source

## Full disclosure
I'm aware my code is messy.  
I'm aware my code is mostly undocumented.  
But hopefully these things are simple enough to work out.