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user: Brandon Dowell <linuxaddict11111_AT_gmail.com>
date: Sun Nov 11 11:00:21 2012 -0600
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user: Brandon Dowell <linuxaddict11111_AT_gmail.com>
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+# AnsiStatusColors - colorize your status bar using ansi escape sequences#
+
+## Description ##
+
+Lets you put colored text in your status bar, but you don''t have define them in your config.h. Instead, just put the ansi escape sequence in the output of your status bar script to print in color, as you would in a terminal.
+
+## Configuration ##
+
+get the patch from github: [
https://gist.github.com/4054818](
https://gist.github.com/4054818)
+
+apply it to dwm.c like so:
+
+ patch -p1 dwm.c < ansistatuscolors.diff
+
+## Usage ##
+
+Just like you''d use them for colorizing a shell script.
+
+more info is here: [
http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/](
http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/)
+
+an ansi escape sequence is in the form:
+
+ \e[<code>m
+
+where:
+
+ \e - escape - ascii 27 / hex 1b / octal 033
+ [ - literal bracket
+ m - literal 'm'
+
+the code is one of the following:
+
+ 0
+ - reset colors to default
+
+ n;m
+
+ n -
+ o - normal color
+ 1 - 'bright' color
+
+ m -
+ 30-37 - foreground
+ 40-47 - background
+
+ n;5;m
+
+ n -
+ 38 - foreground
+ 48 - background
+ 5 -
+ literal '5'
+ m -
+ 0-15 - classic ansi color
+ 16-231 - xterm 256-color rgb color
+ 232-255 - grayscale
+
+in vim, to create a literal 'escape' character, type ctrl-v, esc.
+in perl/python/c, within a string literal, it''s "\x1b".
+
+### Example ###
+ #!/usr/bin/env python
+ ##testcoloredstatus.py
+
+ from subprocess import call,check_output
+
+ redfg = '\x1b[38;5;196m' #hex
+ redbg = '\033[48;5;196m' #octal
+ blackbg = '\x1b[48;5;16m'
+ reset = '\x1b[0m'
+
+ call(['xsetroot','-name',''.join(
+ [
+ redfg,
+ 'hello ',
+ reset,
+ redbg,
+ 'world',
+ reset,
+ '! bar graph: 50% ',
+ redbg,
+ ' '*5,
+ blackbg,
+ ' '*5,
+ reset,
+ ' ',
+ check_output("date").strip()
+ ]
+ )], shell=False)
+###Screenshot###
+my battery is discharging and my wifi signal is iffy ...
+
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