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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

Example in dmenu:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/166115207-c24e9ec8-136e-4956-9842-bcde496bb743.mp4

Example in rofi:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/166115213-511fdaaa-4c04-461a-9976-38a2e9bd83fe.mp4

How to use

They are compiled separately, for example:

nim c pingclock

and then run with

./pingclock dmenu
or
./pingclock rofi

it can also be run without any arguments to receive a i3bar compatible json string

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.

You can also set the volume and brightness levels by typing a numeric figure into the dmenu/rofi input box

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/166156793-2089cc10-2649-4079-b82d-bba272253dd6.mp4

There's also an i3bar_tools_threaded folder with tools for use with i3bar/i3blocks which continously update. Currently these are not working as I recently switched from this as primary, to a secondary choice.

These have some configuration variables explicit to me, you'll need to change them for you for them to be useful I imagine.

Dependencies

  • dmenu, rofi, or i3bar (with i3blocks)

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