SDSBO

Simple dwm status bar for OpenBSD

Features

• Multiple modules for customization
• Module label customization - Use icons or plain text
• Color support (dwm-status2d patch or similar is required)
• Easy configuration via config file

Modules

• Battery - Lifetime and status via apm
• Date - In specified format via date
• IPv4 - inet address of specified interface via ifconfig
• IPv6 - inet6 address of specified interface via ifconfig
• Temperature - °C of specified device via sysctl hw.sensors
• Time - In specified format via date
• Volume - Master volume and status via mixerctl

Install and Use

git clone https://github.com/MaxMutantMayer/sdsbo.git
cd sdsbo
doas chmod +x sdsbo
./sdsbo

Alternatively, you can start sdsbo with a custom configuration (see Customization bellow):

./sdsbo -c /path/to/config

If you made sure everything works fine and you would like to display the bar when X is started, you can add the following to your ~/.xsession file (assuming script is located in ~/.local/bin):

# start sdsbo with ~/.config/sdsbo/config configuration file
"$HOME"/.local/bin/sdsbo -c "$HOME"/.config/sdsbo/config &

# use this instead to run only one sdsbo instance after killing + restarting dwm
# [ -z "$(pgrep -fl sdsbo)" ] && \
#	"$HOME"/.local/bin/sdsbo -c "$HOME"/.config/sdsbo/config &

# start dwm
dwm

Customization

You have two options to customize your bar:

1. Modify the default values directly within the sdsbo script
2. Override the defaults within a config file and use the -c option

Default Values

# Colors
LC=                             # label color
TC=                             # text color

# Labels
LBAT1=CHA                       # charging label
LBAT2=BAT                       # battery label
LDATE=DATE                      # date label
LIPV4=IPv4                      # IPv4 label
LIPV6=IPv6                      # IPv6 label
LTEMP=TEMP                      # temperature label
LTIME=TIME                      # time label
LVOL1=VOL                       # volume 'muted' label
LVOL2=VOL                       # volume label

# Format strings
FDATE="+%Y-%m-%d"               # date format string
FTIME="+%T"                     # time format string

# Interfaces and devices
IPIF=lo0                        # IP address interface
DTEMP=cpu0                      # temperature device

Enable/Disable modules

Specify the modules you want to display by overriding the mods() function:

# use all modules
mods() {
	echo "$(mod_temp) $(mod_ipv4) $(mod_ipv6) $(mod_vol) $(mod_bat) $(mod_date) $(mod_time)"
}

Icons instead of text labels

In order to have icons within your status bar, you have to make sure that dwm is configured to use a font that actually supports your inserted icons.

If you would like to use similar icons as shown in the screenshot, you would have to set the labels to Font Awesome Icons and configure dwm to use the FontAwesome font (config(.def).h):

/* use monospace 10 as default and FontAwesome 10 as fallback */
static const char *fonts[] = { "monospace:size=10", "FontAwesome:size=10" };

Example

The config.example file represents an example configuration, which displays the current CPU temperature and time in the 24-hour format "HH:MM". Additionally, the labels are colored in blue (status2d patch required).