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A selection of information output tools for dmenu

These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. volume have options (up, down, mute…) which are selectable options in dmenu.

Tools

pingclock performs a single ping to a server and returns the response time
battery shows the current battery level
brightness shows the current backlight level and gives options to adjust it
volume shows the current volume level and gives options to adjust and manage it
date shows the date
fuzzytime shows the fuzzytime clock
wlan shows the state of the wireless network interface. SSID connected to and signal level.
nic shows the status and/or the ip address of the network interface card
temperature shows the current CPU temperature
notes a simple one liner note taking tool, displaying notes in dmenu/rofi

The next two do not work with rofi unless you have alias dmenu=rofi set, but they’re pretty nice tools

passmenu_wrapper a wrapper for passmenu. It basically just styles passmenu with no other features
command_wrapper inspired by passmenu_wrapper, a basic tool to run other dmenu related tools with uniform styling.
- For example: dmenu_run, clipmenu, passmenu etc.

Example in `dmenu`:

dmenu_tools

Example of `command_wrapper` with `clipmenu`

command_wrap

How to compile

There are some configuration variables explicit to me, you’ll need to change them for you for them to be useful I imagine.
Configuration variables are compile - there are no config files or runtime parameters (except for “rofi”)

Each tool is compiled separately, for example:

nim c pingclock

and then run with

./pingclock 
# or
./pingclock rofi

How to use

Personally, I have these bound to key combinations in i3. In fact, I have a seperate bindsym mode in which all these tools are accessible i.e. $mod+i to get to “info” mode then p to show pingclock.
It’s completely up to you how to run them, they’re just simple CLI tools really.

You can also set the volume and brightness levels by typing a numeric figure into the dmenu/rofi input box

Dependencies

dmenu or rofi
yad for calendar
passmenu for passmenu_wrapper
basically any tool that’s used to gather the information.
“tools” for audio etc. (pamixer, ncpamixer, etc.) can be set in the source

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