[SOLVED] customizing the statusbar dwmblock (DWM - Tiling Window Manager)

apoorv569 · 06-12-2020, 08:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

Ah, I don't have a DVD drive or card reader, so didn't think about other kinds of devices beyond USB that may have HintAuto set to true.

Well, the awk script enumerates partitions on all removable storage devices. I believe in your case it could be a bit simplified. How about

Code:

udisksctl dump|awk -F':\n' -vRS= '/[ \t]*HintAuto:[ \t]*true/&&/\.Filesystem:/{print "found"}'

yep its working fine now. thank you

Code:

   #!/bin/bash
  
   if [[ "$(udisksctl dump|awk -F':\n' -vRS= '/[ \t]*HintAuto:[ \t]*true/&&/\.Filesystem:/{print "found"}')" != "" ]]; then
           icon="  "
   else
           icon=""
   fi
  
   printf "%s%s\\n" "$icon"

one more thing my DWM build tends to freeze my laptop randomly like im here typing this sentence and suddenly my laptop is frozen or im just browing the internet and scrolling and it freezes it has happened 3 4 times now i had to hard reboot by long pressing power button. any ideas why? or way to debug this issue?

also i want to enable tap to touch and natural scrolling for my touchpad right now i can do this with
for tap to click

Code:

xinput set-prop 11 300 1

and for natural scrolling

Code:

xinput set-prop 11 308 1

so i just put it in my `autostart.sh` or is there a better way to do it?

shruggy · 06-12-2020, 08:20 AM

Probably better to start two new threads as these problems have nothing to do with customizing the DWM statusbar. Nor with each other.

apoorv569 · 06-12-2020, 08:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

Probably better to start two new threads as these problems have nothing to do with customizing the DWM statusbar. Nor with each other.

no problem. thank you so much for helping. you rock!

TB0ne · 06-12-2020, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apoorv569

no problem. thank you so much for helping. you rock!

And thank you for showing your efforts and learning; far too often people don't, and it is much appreciated. You'll continue to do well.

apoorv569 · 06-12-2020, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TB0ne

And thank you for showing your efforts and learning; far too often people don't, and it is much appreciated. You'll continue to do well.

the bluetooth script is working fine. and i was making button actions, this is middle click action, but its not working.

Code:

2) notify-send "Device Connected" "$(if [[ "$(bluetoothctl info)" != "Missing device address argument" ]]; then 
                                                  echo= "$(bluetoothctl info | grep "Name" | awk '{print $2}')"
else
                                                  echo= "No Device Connected" )" ;;

doesn't show anything, i only want it to shows "Device Connected - (name of the device)" when a device is a connected else it shows "No Device Connected", but click action doesn't seems to work it doesn't even show a blank notification. left and right click works.

this is the full script

Code:

#!/bin/bash
  
  case $BLOCK_BUTTON in
          1) setsid -f blueman-manager ;;
          2) notify-send "Device Connected" "$(if [[ "$(bluetoothctl info)" != "Missing device address argument" ]]; then 
                                                  echo= "$(bluetoothctl info | grep "Name" | awk '{print $2}')"
else
                                                  echo= "No Device Connected" )" ;;
          3) notify-send "Bluetooth" "\- Show Bluetooth Status.
  - Click to open Bluetooth Manager.
  - Middle click to show Connected Devices." ;;
  
  esac
  
    if [[ "$(bluetoothctl info)" != "Missing device address argument" ]]; then
      icon="  "
    else
      icon="  "
    fi
  
  printf "%s%s\\n" "$icon"

shruggy · 06-13-2020, 08:40 AM

Code:

2) notify-send "Device Connected" "$(if [[ "$(bluetoothctl info)" != "Missing device address argument" ]]; then 
                                                  echo= "$(bluetoothctl info | grep "Name" | awk '{print $2}')"
else
                                                  echo= "No Device Connected"; fi)" ;;

Remove = after echo. echo= ... means "assign an empty string to the variable echo and put it into environment for the command that follows".
fi is missing.

https://www.shellcheck.net would catch such errors.

Actually, I'd rather write it like this:

Code:

2) notify-send "Device Connected" $(bluetoothctl info|grep -q 'Missing device address argument' &&
                                          echo 'No Device Connected' ||
                                          bluetoothctl info|awk '/Name/{print $2}')

apoorv569 · 06-13-2020, 01:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

Code:

2) notify-send "Device Connected" "$(if [[ "$(bluetoothctl info)" != "Missing device address argument" ]]; then 
                                                  echo= "$(bluetoothctl info | grep "Name" | awk '{print $2}')"
else
                                                  echo= "No Device Connected"; fi)" ;;

Remove = after echo. echo= ... means "assign an empty string to the variable echo and put it into environment for the command that follows".
fi is missing.

https://www.shellcheck.net would catch such errors.

Actually, I'd rather write it like this:

Code:

2) notify-send "Device Connected" $(bluetoothctl info|grep -q 'Missing device address argument' &&
                                          echo 'No Device Connected' ||
                                          bluetoothctl info|awk '/Name/{print $2}')

yes, i actually learned about logical operators yesterday.

i was writing another script yesterday for internet that shows me a wifi icon if its connected and/or ethernet icon if its connected.

Code:

if [[ "$(cat /sys/class/net/w*/operstate 2>/dev/null)" == "up" || "$(cat /sys/class/net/e*/operstate 2>/dev/null)" == "up" ]];     then
          icon=" 📶 "
  else
          icon=" 🌐 "
  fi
  
  printf "%s%s\n" "$icon"

the script works, but it always show the wifi icon even if i have ethernet connected. and i also want to show " ❎ " this icon when nothing connected. but couldn't figure out how.

apoorv569 · 06-14-2020, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apoorv569

yes, i actually learned about logical operators yesterday.

i was writing another script yesterday for internet that shows me a wifi icon if its connected and/or ethernet icon if its connected.

Code:

if [[ "$(cat /sys/class/net/w*/operstate 2>/dev/null)" == "up" || "$(cat /sys/class/net/e*/operstate 2>/dev/null)" == "up" ]];     then
          icon=" �� "
  else
          icon=" �� "
  fi
  
  printf "%s%s\n" "$icon"

the script works, but it always show the wifi icon even if i have ethernet connected. and i also want to show " ❎ " this icon when nothing connected. but couldn't figure out how.

ok so i edited the script but its not working now. i tried the link you sent `shellcheck` its says no errors, but when i execute in terminal it fails.

Code:

"$(cat /sys/class/net/w*/operstate 2>/dev/null)" == "up" && echo ' �� ' || "$(cat /sys/class/net/e*/operstate 2>/dev/null)" == "up" && echo ' �� ' || echo ' ❎ '

shruggy · 06-14-2020, 07:41 AM

It's difficult to get it right with && and || operators when there are more than two choices.

Code:

if grep -qw up /sys/class/net/w*/operstate
then icon=' 📶 '
elif grep -qw up /sys/class/net/e*/operstate
then icon=' 🌐 '
else icon=' ❎ '
fi

apoorv569 · 06-14-2020, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

It's difficult to get it right with && and || operators when there are more than two choices.

Code:

if grep -qw up /sys/class/net/w*/operstate
then icon=' 📶 '
elif grep -qw up /sys/class/net/e*/operstate
then icon=' 🌐 '
else icon=' ❎ '
fi

yes its working, i used if and elif before but didn't work, i guess there were some error i made.

i made another script for weather

Code:

weather="$(curl 'https://wttr.in/Paris,France?format=%t')"
  
   printf "%s%s\\n" "$weather"

i dont live in paris its just a test.
it shows output in terminal, but its not showing in the statusbar.

shruggy · 06-14-2020, 10:44 AM

It may have nothing to do with your script, but rather with wttr.in. Here is what I currently get:

Quote:

Sorry, we are running out of queries to the weather service at the moment.

Update. Now, it works again.

Quote:

Originally Posted by apoorv569

Code:

printf "%s%s\\n" "$weather"

I guess just printf "%s\n" "$weather" would be enough. You are quoting the variable $weather anyway, so even if its value includes a space, it will be counted as just one parameter to printf.

apoorv569 · 06-14-2020, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

It may have nothing to do with your script, but rather with wttr.in. Here is what I currently get:

Update. Now, it works again.

I guess just printf "%s\n" "$weather" would be enough. You are quoting the variable $weather anyway, so even if its value includes a space, it will be counted as just one parameter to printf.

its working, actually the update interval in blocks.h was 18000(5 hrs), i changed it to 1 its showing now. i guess it was not updating because of long interval.

apoorv569 · 06-17-2020, 07:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

It may have nothing to do with your script, but rather with wttr.in. Here is what I currently get:

Update. Now, it works again.

I guess just printf "%s\n" "$weather" would be enough. You are quoting the variable $weather anyway, so even if its value includes a space, it will be counted as just one parameter to printf.

i edited my weather script as it was continuously using the internet and updating/downloading, so i did this

Code:

#!/bin/bash

 weather="${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.cache/}weather"

 getweather="$(curl -sf 'https://wttr.in/Paris,France?format=%t' > "$weather" || exit 1 ;)"

 showweather() { printf "%s" "$weather" ;}

 case $BLOCK_BUTTON in
                 1) setsid -f "$TERMINAL" -e less -Srf "$weatherreport" ;;
                 2) getweather && showweather ;;
                 3) notify-send "�� Weather module" "\- Left click for full forecast.
                 - Middle click to update forecast." ;;
                 6) "$TERMINAL" -e "$EDITOR" "$0" ;;
         esac

 #printf "%s" "$weather"

 [ "$(stat -c %y "$weather" 2>/dev/null | cut -d' ' -f1)" = "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')" ] ||
                 getweather

 showweather

but its now showing me the weather, instead its showing me the path of the file "/home/apoorv/.cache/weather%"

shruggy · 06-17-2020, 09:16 AM

Replace printf with cat:

Code:

showweather() { cat "$weather" ;}

apoorv569 · 06-17-2020, 09:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shruggy

Replace printf with cat:

Code:

showweather() { cat "$weather" ;}

oops, such a silly mistake sorry