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   1 slstatus - suckless status
   2 ==========================
   3 slstatus is a suckless status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME
   4 (e.g. dwm) or stdin to fill the status bar.
   5
   6
   7 Features
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   9 - Battery percentage/state/time left
  10 - CPU usage
  11 - CPU frequency
  12 - Custom shell commands
  13 - Date and time
  14 - Disk status (free storage, percentage, total storage and used storage)
  15 - Available entropy
  16 - Username/GID/UID
  17 - Hostname
  18 - IP address (IPv4 and IPv6)
  19 - Kernel version
  20 - Keyboard indicators
  21 - Keymap
  22 - Load average
  23 - Network speeds (RX and TX)
  24 - Number of files in a directory (hint: Maildir)
  25 - Memory status (free memory, percentage, total memory and used memory)
  26 - Swap status (free swap, percentage, total swap and used swap)
  27 - Temperature
  28 - Uptime
  29 - Volume percentage (OSS/ALSA)
  30 - WiFi signal percentage and ESSID
  31
  32
  33 Requirements
  34 ------------
  35 In order to build slstatus you need the Xlib header files.
  36
  37
  38 Installation
  39 ------------
  40 Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slstatus is installed into the
  41 /usr/local namespace by default). Uncomment OSSLIBS on OpenBSD.
  42
  43 Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slstatus (if
  44 necessary as root):
  45
  46     make clean install
  47
  48
  49 Running slstatus
  50 ----------------
  51 See the man page for details.
  52
  53
  54 Configuration
  55 -------------
  56 slstatus can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
  57 source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
  58
  59
  60 Todo
  61 ----
  62 Cleaning up the whole codebase it the goal before thinking about a release.