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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[1]

Example of `command_wrapper` with `clipmenu`

!command_wrap[2]

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