From 0e71af11a27631e45c0160842e4498507420eff0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: stkhan Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 19:42:29 -0500 Subject: bar and blocks --- wm/someblocks/README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wm/someblocks/README.md (limited to 'wm/someblocks/README.md') diff --git a/wm/someblocks/README.md b/wm/someblocks/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f96c944 --- /dev/null +++ b/wm/someblocks/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# someblocks +Modular status bar for [somebar](https://git.sr.ht/~raphi/somebar) written in c. + +This is a fork of [dwmblocks](https://github.com/torrinfail/dwmblocks), modified +to connect to somebar instead of dwm. + +The mailing list for this project is +[~raphi/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht](mailto:~raphi/public-inbox@lists.sr.ht). +# usage +To use someblocks first run 'make' and then install it with 'sudo make install'. +After that you can put someblocks in your startup script to have it start with dwl/somebar. +# modifying blocks +The statusbar is made from text output from commandline programs. +Blocks are added and removed by editing the blocks.h header file. +By default the blocks.h header file is created the first time you run make which copies the default config from blocks.def.h. +This is so you can edit your status bar commands and they will not get overwritten in a future update. +# patches +Here are some patches to someblocks that add features that I either don't want to merge in, or that require a dwl/somebar patch to work. +I do not maintain these but I will take pull requests to update them. -- cgit v1.2.3