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# THANK YOU LUKE FOR YOUR HARD WORK
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# dwmblocks
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Modular status bar for dwm written in c.
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# Modifying blocks
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The statusbar is made from text output from commandline programs. Blocks are
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added and removed by editing the config.h file.
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# Luke's build
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I have dwmblocks read my preexisting scripts
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[here in my dotfiles repo](https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/tree/master/.local/bin/statusbar).
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So if you want my build out of the box, download those and put them in your
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`$PATH`. I do this to avoid redundancy in LARBS, both i3 and dwm use the same
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statusbar scripts.
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# Signaling changes
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Most statusbars constantly rerun every script every several seconds to update.
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This is an option here, but a superior choice is giving your module a signal
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that you can signal to it to update on a relevant event, rather than having it
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rerun idly.
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For example, the audio module has the update signal 10 by default. Thus,
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running `pkill -RTMIN+10 dwmblocks` will update it.
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You can also run `kill -44 $(pidof dwmblocks)` which will have the same effect,
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but is faster. Just add 34 to your typical signal number.
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My volume module *never* updates on its own, instead I have this command run
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along side my volume shortcuts in dwm to only update it when relevant.
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Note that all modules must have different signal numbers.
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# Clickable modules
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Like i3blocks, this build allows you to build in additional actions into your
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scripts in response to click events. See the above linked scripts for examples
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of this using the `$BLOCK_BUTTON` variable.
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For this feature to work, you need the appropriate patch in dwm as well. See
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[here](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/statuscmd/).
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Credit for those patches goes to Daniel Bylinka (daniel.bylinka@gmail.com).
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