Is there a reason you're not just using awesome?
-sth
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.
>
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--sth
Received on Thu Dec 22 2011 - 20:54:21 CET