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-slstatus - suckless status
-==========================
-slstatus is a suckless status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME
-(e.g. dwm) or stdin to fill the status bar.
-
-
-Features
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-- Battery percentage/state/time left
-- CPU usage
-- CPU frequency
-- Custom shell commands
-- Date and time
-- Disk status (free storage, percentage, total storage and used storage)
-- Available entropy
-- Username/GID/UID
-- Hostname
-- IP address (IPv4 and IPv6)
-- Kernel version
-- Keyboard indicators
-- Keymap
-- Load average
-- Network speeds (RX and TX)
-- Number of files in a directory (hint: Maildir)
-- Memory status (free memory, percentage, total memory and used memory)
-- Swap status (free swap, percentage, total swap and used swap)
-- Temperature
-- Uptime
-- Volume percentage
-- WiFi signal percentage and ESSID
-
-
-Requirements
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-Currently slstatus works on FreeBSD, Linux and OpenBSD.
-In order to build slstatus you need the Xlib header files.
-
-
-Installation
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-Edit config.mk to match your local setup (slstatus is installed into the
-/usr/local namespace by default).
-
-Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slstatus (if
-necessary as root):
-
-    make clean install
-
-
-Running slstatus
-----------------
-See the man page for details.
-
-
-Configuration
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-slstatus can be customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the
-source code. This keeps it fast, secure and simple.
-
-
-Upcoming
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-
-A release (v1.0) will come soon... ;)
-After a long phase of inactivity, development has been continued!