flexstatus is a status bar generator to use with programs like Dzen2 or lemonbar.

So why yet another program to generate status updates? I originally started with yabar (which I really like) but it seems to pick random y locations and so is not usable for me. My intent is to replace my panel.sh shellscript since I hate that it can take upto a second to reflect the proper workspace name.

Features

Here's what it implements now/features:

• Date/Time (ie a clock)
• Workspace name (updated in realtime) (or it can display a crude pager or n/n if you prefer)
• Static Text (for buttons)
• Periodically poll a file, with configurable sleep duration
• Periodically poll a command, with configurable sleep duration
• Bar agnostic. It uses Go templates to support different bars
• Stream from a command in the background - New
• Stream updates from a file (ie a FIFO) - New
• Multiple pollers, each with their own sleep duration
• Multiple streamers

Coming Eventually

• MPD info? (hehe, just found https://github.com/fhs/gompd)
• Define template variables (to DRY up your templates)
• Will optionally run a bar (to keep it all in once mostly)
• More widgets? IDK, I don't want to compete with Conky since the two compliment each other quite well.

My bar config

https://github.com/vhodges/dotfiles/tree/master/statusbar

Building/Running

Building:

Uses Go so you need Go setup (including GOPATH):

  go get -u github.com/vhodges/flexstatus

Will leave the flexstatus binary in $GOPATH/bin

I'll look into building downloadable releases with binaries and/or packaging it up for the AUR

Running:

  ./flexstatus -config sample_widgets.toml

If the config file can't be found (or errors when loading it) it adds a clock and a version string to the bar so you can at least see something.

The config file defaults to $HOME/.flexstatus_widgets.toml if not specified on the command line.

Similar/Related

There are a fair amount of tools for this kind of thing (I'll add more as I find them):

• https://github.com/l3pp4rd/statusbar (Go, only works with dzen2).
• https://github.com/ibabushkin/bartender (Rust, I like this as it solves problems I also am having, but alas I think it's too low level)
• https://github.com/damog/mastodon
• https://github.com/ghedamat/go-i3status
• https://github.com/davidscholberg/goblocks
• https://github.com/denbeigh2000/goi3bar

License - MIT