cluless statusbar

A minialistic, lightweight, customizable statusbar (formerly xdbar), inspired by xmobar and dwm's statusbar, for X11 Desktops (wayland in progress), that are compatible with EWMH specifications.

Rendering styled/clickable text, is inspired by xmobar's approach of wrapping text in XML like tags.
Populating statusbar is inspired by dwm statusbar's approach of using the root window's WM_NAME attribute text.

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Description

  + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - margin - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +
  ¦ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦
  ¦ | + - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - padding - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ | ¦
  ¦ | ¦stdin                                                        WM_NAME¦ | ¦
  ¦ | +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + | ¦
  ¦ +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦
  +- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - +

• margin is the empty space outside of the bar window.
• padding is the space between the bar window edges and the drawing region.
• stdin text is typically provided by the window manager.
• WM_NAME (of the root window) can be set using the xsetroot command.

Setting WM_NAME

• slstatus
• smolprog (my personal script)
• Custom script example:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
  xsetroot -name "$(whoami)@$(hostname) on $(uname -o) | $(date)"
  sleep 1
done

Usage

USAGE: clubar [OPTIONS]...
OPTIONS:
  -h, --help      print this help message.
  -v, --version   print version.
  -t, --topbar    window position (top/bottom edge of the screen).
  -c file, --config[=file]
                  filepath for runtime configs (supports: lua).
  -g values, --geometry[=values]
                  window geometry as 'x,y,width,height' (eg: '0,0,1280,720').
  -p values, --padding[=values]
                  window padding as 'left,right,top,bot' (eg: '0,0,10,10').
  -m values, --margin[=values]
                  window margin as 'left,right,top,bot' (eg: '0,0,10,10').
  -f color, --foreground[=color]
                  set default foreground color.
  -b color, --background[=color]
                  set default background color.
  --fonts[=values]
                  comma seperated fonts (eg: 'arial-10,monospace-10:bold').
SIGNALS:
  USR1: toggle window visibility (e.g. pkill -USR1 clubar).
  USR2: Reload configurations from external config file without reloading.

Requirements

• free, libre and open source Operating System (currently doesn't support *BSD).
• gnu make
• libx11
• libxft

Optional

• pkg-config (if not installed, update config.mk accordingly).
• lua (required if using luaconfig plugin).

Build

Default build

make

Build with plugins enabled

make PLUGINS="luaconfig xrmconfig ..."

Install

sudo make install

Available Plugins (Note: plugins are just space seperated c filenames, from plugins directory, without file extension, see examples.)

• luaconfig: runtime config support with lua source file.
• xrmconfig: runtime config support with X Resources.

Styling text

Template for styling text

<Tag:Mod1|Mod2|...|Modn=Value> Text </Tag>

Tag	Modifiers	Value	Description
Fn	-	Number	Index of 'fonts' array from configs (default: 0)
Fg	-	Color	Valid color name
Bg	-	Color	Valid color name
Box	Left, Right, Top, Bottom	Color:Size	valid color name and size (default: 0) in pixels
BtnL	Shift, Ctrl, Super, Alt	Command	Raw command
BtnM	Shift, Ctrl, Super, Alt	Command	Raw command
BtnR	Shift, Ctrl, Super, Alt	Command	Raw command
ScrlU	Shift, Ctrl, Super, Alt	Command	Raw command
ScrlD	Shift, Ctrl, Super, Alt	Command	Raw command

Examples

<Fn=1><Fg=#131313> Colored </Fg> text with <Bg=#c6c6c6> background</Bg></Fn>.

<Box:Bottom=#ffffff:1> underlined </Box> text.
<Box:Top|Bottom|Left|Right=#ffffff:1> Boxed in </Box> text.

<BtnL=systemctl reboot> reboot </BtnL>
<BtnL:Ctrl|Shift=sudo -A reboot now> reboot w/ confirmation </BtnL>

<ScrlU:Ctrl=amixer sset Master 5%+>
  <ScrlD:Ctrl=amixer sset Master 5%->
    volume
  </ScrlD>
</ScrlU>

Licence:

GPLv3