salman-abedin / uniblocks

Status bar agnostic module generator

Uniblocks: Status bar agnostic module generator

Uniblocks wraps all of your status bar modules into a single string that updates only the part that has changed.
This string can be used with any status bar application since Uniblocks itself handles all the updating.

Features

• The modules can be updated without the status bar's interventions
• Updating is possible both periodically and manually
• Different modules can be updated at different intervals
• Can be used with any status bar application
• Tiny & fast ( hint: ~80 lines of POSIX shellscript with only sleep calls)

Dependencies

• mkfifo, sleep

Installation

git clone https://github.com/salman-abedin/uniblocks.git && cd uniblocks && make && sudo make install

Usage

• Modify ~/.config/uniblocksrc according to your particular status bar setup.

• Script belows commands as necessary.

Command	Effect
uniblocks --gen,-g	Prints the status string according to the config
uniblocks --update,-u <TAG>	Manually updates individual module (e.g. The volume module)

Update

cd uniblocks
git pull --no-rebase && sudo make install

Uninstallation

cd uniblocks
sudo make uninstall

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Contact

[email protected]

uniblocks's Issues

Uniblocks shows nothing

When I run in the terminal "uniblocks -g" shows nothing. I've checked the FIFO and everything was being printed there. There's something else I supposed to do? I'm running on Artix Linux, with spectrwm.

Uniblocks and spectrwm's built in bar

I really like the project, and really want to use it. I just can't get it working with spectrwm.

Spectrwm takes a baraction.sh script and shows it's output on the bar, it is not accepting uniblocks.

I trued capturing the output in another script and showing that, but it still didn't work

Hoping you could check it out.
Thanks in advance.

Generate only one module at a time

Hello

I see on the demostration gif you are generating only the vol module with uniblocks --gen vol

I am also to use the syntax uniblocks --gen <tag> but it is printing the who bar regardless of what tag I specify.

Best
Ronnie Nissan