Re: [hackers] Polybar status support

From: Abdullah <abdullah_AT_abdullah.today>
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 19:38:34 +0500

On 03/10, Teodoro Santoni wrote:
>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.
>

Thanks for suggestions. I'll check it now.


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