mstatus

mstatus is a minimal status bar intended for the DWM window manager but which also works on other window managers; I use it on Sway, for instance. The status bar is comprised of a sequence of “blocks” which can be created, modifed, and removed at will by writing commands to a named pipe.

For usage instructions see the mstatus(1) manual page. This can either be done by running man -l mstatus.1, or man mstatus if you have already installed the program. Online documentation is also available here

Installation

Assuming you have cloned the repo, you can install the status bar and manual page in two commands.

$ make
$ make install  # Will require root permissions

If you are installing mstatus for usage in DWM, then the installation is slightly different:

$ make HAS_DWM=true
$ make install  # Will require root permissions