X-Git-Url: https://git.xinqibao.xyz/slstatus.git/blobdiff_plain/f6f0c895ce95065f581f6f6d473afe9745a6f812..5c86bbd67f25815aa9c6c309697df7aea2d80330:/README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 404977f..e19e16d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ slstatus If you write a bash script that shows system information in WM_NAME, it executes a huge amount of external command (top, free etc.) every few seconds. This results in high system resource usage. slstatus solves this problem by only using C libraries and/or reading from files in sysfs / procfs. -Looking at the LOC (lines of code) in the [Conky project](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky) is very interesting: *28.346 lines C++, 219 lines Python and 110 lines Lua*. slstatus currently has about **500 lines of clean, well commented C code** and even includes additional possibilities as it can be customized and extended very easily. Configuring it by editing config.h (a C header file) is very secure and fast as no config files are parsed at runtime. +Looking at the LOC (lines of code) in the [Conky project](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky) is very interesting: *28.346 lines C++, 219 lines Python and 110 lines Lua*. slstatus currently has about **600 lines of clean, well commented C code** and even includes additional possibilities as it can be customized and extended very easily. Configuring it by editing config.h (a C header file) is very secure and fast as no config files are parsed at runtime. The following information is included: @@ -15,17 +15,18 @@ The following information is included: - date and time - disk numbers (free storage, percentage, total storage and used storage) - available entropy +- username/gid/uid of current user - hostname - ip addresses +- load average - ram numbers (free ram, percentage, total ram and used ram) - temperature -- volume percentage (alsa) -- wifi percentage +- uptime +- volume percentage + mute status (alsa) +- wifi signal percentage and essid Multiple entries per function are supported and everything can be reordered and customized via the C header file config.h (similar to DWM). -![screenshot](screenshot.png) - ## Usage ### Installation @@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ Put the following code in your ~/.xinitrc (or similar): ``` while true; do - slstatus + slstatus done & ```