That's great. I actually joined this mailing list recently, because of finding
out about "ii". It's nice to see another project doing something similar.
On 22 Oct 2021, at 15:07, dev mail list wrote:
> Hello fellow dislikers of sucking!
>
> After a lot of suckfull experiments (archived at
> https://github.com/xandkar/khatus/), I've finally settled on what it is
> that I would even want from a status bar thingie - I want ii, but for my
> status bar. Here's my take on it:
>
> https://github.com/xandkar/pista
>
> I've been dogfooding/beta-testing pista for almost 2 years now, and
> while there's certainly improvements that can be made - it reliably does
> pretty much what I want.
>
> Any constructive criticism is highly appreciated!
>
> The main design idea is this: asynchronously read lines from N FIFOs and
> route to N corresponding slots on the bar:
>
> b +--------------+--------------+- ... ---+-------------+
> a | slot_1 | slot_2 | | slot_N |
> r +--------------+--------------+- ... ---+-------------+
> ^ ^ ^
> | | |
> +-+ +-+ +-+
> | | | | | |
> |F| |F| |F|
> |I| |I| |I|
> |F| |F| |F|
> |O| |O| |O|
> | | | | | |
> |1| |2| |N|
> | | | | | |
> +-+ +-+ +-+
> ^ ^ ^
> | | |
> process_1 process_2 ... process_N
>
>
> Each slot is given a TTL, after which, if there was no update - the slot
> is cleared - helping you spot broken sensors and not fool yourself with
> stale data.
>
> What is a sensor? Anything that outputs lines of text.
> What goes into a FIFO? Lines of text.
>
> Here're the "sensors" that I currently use (which are still in flux and
> not quite suckless yet):
>
> https://github.com/xandkar/pista-sensors
>
> I launch it all via a script such as this:
> https://github.com/xandkar/pista-sensors/blob/master/example-via-tmux
>
> which I call from ~/.xinitrc
>
> Running it from tmux has been great - I can do runtime reconfiguration,
> stop, restart the whole thing, can attach and stop/restart and or tweak
> individual sensor processes, etc. - all without relaunching X.
>
> This also makes it easy to do one-off experiments as well as temporarily
> disabling things (like if I want to completely disable the weather
> fetcher while I know I'm going to be offline for a long time).
>
> -- xand
-- Alan Morgan
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