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# A selection of information output tools for dmenu
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These are a selection of independant tools for displaying various information
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about system status in dmenu. Some of them i.e. `volume` have options (up, down, mute...)
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which are selectable options in dmenu.
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## Tools
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- `pingclock` performs a single `ping` to a server and returns the response time
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- `battery` shows the current battery level
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- `brightness` shows the current backlight level and gives options to adjust it
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- `volume` shows the current volume level and gives options to adjust and manage it
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- `date` shows the date
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- `fuzzytime` shows the fuzzytime clock
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- `wlan` shows the state of the wireless network interface. SSID connected to and signal level.
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- `nic` shows the status and/or the ip address of the network interface card
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- `temperature` shows the current CPU temperature
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- `notes` a simple one liner note taking tool, displaying notes in dmenu/rofi
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The next two do not work with `rofi` unless you have `alias dmenu=rofi` set, but they're pretty nice tools
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- `passmenu_wrapper` a wrapper for passmenu. It basically just styles passmenu with no other features
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- `command_wrapper` inspired by passmenu_wrapper, a basic tool to run other dmenu related tools with uniform styling
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### Example in dmenu:
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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/166115207-c24e9ec8-136e-4956-9842-bcde496bb743.mp4
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### Example in rofi:
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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/166115213-511fdaaa-4c04-461a-9976-38a2e9bd83fe.mp4
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### Example of `command_wrapper` with `clipmenu`
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## How to compile
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There are some configuration variables explicit to me, you'll need to change them for you for them to be useful I imagine.
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Configuration variables are compile - there are no config files or runtime parameters (except for "rofi")
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Each tool is compiled separately, for example:
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```nim
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nim c pingclock
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```
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and then run with
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```sh
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./pingclock
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or
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./pingclock rofi
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```
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## How to use
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Personally, I have these bound to key combinations in i3.
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In fact, I have a seperate `bindsym` mode in which all these
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tools are accessible i.e. `$mod+i` to get to "info" mode then `p` to show pingclock.
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It's completely up to you how to run them, they're just simple CLI tools really.
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### You can also set the volume and brightness levels by typing a numeric figure into the dmenu/rofi input box
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https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31094984/166156793-2089cc10-2649-4079-b82d-bba272253dd6.mp4
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## Dependencies
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- dmenu, rofi, yad (for calendar)
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- basically any tool that's used to gather the information.
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- "tools" for audio etc. (`pamixer`, `ncpamixer`, etc.) can be set in the source
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## Full disclosure
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I'm aware my code is messy.
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I'm aware my code is mostly undocumented.
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But hopefully these things are simple enough to work out.
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