rsblocks

A multi threaded fast status bar for dwm window manager written in Rust 🦀

Features

• Multi Threads
• Time/Date
• Memory Usage
• Disk Usage
• Weather Temperature
• Sound Volume
• Battery Percentage
• Cpu Temperature
• Load Average
• Uptime
• Mpd Current Song
• Spotify Current Song
• Easy to configure with rsblocks.yml file

Notes

• This tool is still in development stage.
• currently supports only linux.

Build Requirements

• Libdbus 1.6 or higher as a requirement to spotify.

On ubuntu you can do:

sudo apt install libdbus-1-dev pkg-config

Cargo Installation

You can install the binary crate directly

cargo install rsblocks

Manual Installation

You can clone the repo and build from the source code

git clone https://github.com/mustafasalih1993/rsblocks

build with cargo

cargo build --release

move the executable somewhere in your PATH (assuming you are in the root dir of the project)

mv ./target/release/rsblocks /usr/local/bin

you good to go now and can run rsblocks from your terminal or put that in your .xinitrc

Configuration

Notes:

• rsblocks will try to read the file $HOME/.config/rsblocks/rsblocks.yml, if it does not exist, it will load the defaults.
• rsblocks will read the configuration file only on startup, which means you have to kill it and start it again if you updated your rsblocks.yml file.

create the directory

mkdir ~/.config/rsblocks

copy the template to the new config directory (assuming you are in the root dir of the repo)

cp ./rsblocks.yml ~/.config/rsblocks/rsblocks.yml

Contributions

All Contributions are welcome.

Credits

• wttr.in for using their weather API

License

MIT