Re: [dev] [wmii] widgets with graphics?

From: Seth Hover <seth.hover_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:11:42 -0800

whoops, I missed the [wmii] tag. Please ignore my last post.
--sth

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Seth Hover <seth.hover_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a reason you're not just using awesome?
>
> -sth
>
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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati <sunaku_AT_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:44:54 PM PST, dtk wrote:
>> > is there a way to have widgets in the status bar display images
>> > instead of utf8 symbols?
>>
>> I gave up on this approach for DWM and used dzen2 as my status bar
>> instead: https://github.com/sunaku/.dwm/blob/master/dwm-statusbar
>>
>> (Pictured at bottom of this screenshot: http://ompldr.org/vYnUyNg)
>>
>> dzen2 supports XBM and XPM images, which I use from sm4tik's icon set:
>> https://github.com/sunaku/.dwm/tree/master/dwm-statusbar-icons
>>
>> Finally, the SVN version of dzen2 supports clickable areas, so I get
>> nearly the same level of functionality as I did with WMII's statusbar.
>> For instance, all of my statusbar widgets refresh the entire statusbar
>> after their click handler has been executed.
>>
>> This makes it feel responsive. For example, if I change the current
>> song using my MPD statusbar widget, I want to see the new song title
>> immediately, rather than waiting for the next update (at most, 30
>> seconds later).
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> panic: can't find /
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>>
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> --
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> --sth
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--sth
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