Re: [hackers] Polybar status support

From: Teodoro Santoni <asbrasbra_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:44:54 +0200

2019-10-03 15:22 GMT+02:00, Abdullah <abdullah_AT_abdullah.today>:
> I would write something, but something in dwm.c should be modified to give
> polybar some space.
>
> On 03-Oct-2019 6:09 PM, Greg Reagle <greg.reagle_AT_umbc.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, at 06:26, Abdullah wrote:
>> > I can use bash for that. But don't you think it will use more
>> > resources? Previously I had been using such scripts for
>> > polybar modules and they were using much resources.
>>
>> Bash is not a lightweight shell; it is a shell with a lot of features. I
>> would *speculate* that writing in something like rc [1] or ksh [2] [3]
>> would use less RAM.
>>
>> [1] https://tools.suckless.org/9base/
>> [2] http://www.kornshell.com/
>> [3] http://mirbsd.de/mksh

Ah, I see. The freespace patch and/or extrabar may help you, and you
can disable the statusbar with the function togglebar in dwm.
Received on Thu Oct 03 2019 - 15:44:54 CEST

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