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slstatus
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**slstatus** is a suckless and lightweight status monitor for window managers which use WM_NAME as statusbar (e.g. DWM). It is written in pure C without any system() calls and only reads from files most of the time. It is meant as a better alternative to Bash scripts (inefficient) and Conky (bloated for this use).
The following information is included:
- wifi percentage
- battery percentage
- cpu usage in percent
- cpu temperature
- ram usage in percent
- alsa volume level in percent
- disk usage
- date
- time
Multiple entries (battery, wifi signal, ...) are supported and everything can be reordered and customized via a C header file (similar to DWM).
![screenshot](screenshot.png)
## Usage
### Installation
Before you continue, please be sure that a C compiler, `make` and `alsa-lib` are installed. Then compile the program once using `sudo make install`. After that you may change config.h to your needs and recompile it after any change!
### Starting
Put the following code in your ~/.xinitrc (or similar):
```
while true; do
slstatus
done &
```
The loop is needed that the program runs after suspend to ram.
## Contributing
In [TODO.md](TODO.md) there is a list of things that have to be done.
People who contributed are listed in [CONTRIBUTORS.md](CONTRIBUTORS.md).
For detailed information about coding style and restrictions see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)
## License
See [LICENSE](LICENSE).