Status bar == waybar, eww, polybar, etc.
The default swaybar (the thing that, with the default config, is just a black rectangle at the top indicating workspaces and showing the time).
For me it’s at the bottom and using a script invoking conky as a source to display stuff. And that stuff is:
- Time left till some important timestamp (usually that cute boys bd :3)
- Playerctl status (which is disabled currently, as it took 5 seconds to run when using spotifyd)
- Bluetooth status (either blocked (by rfkill), not connected or the devices connected)
- Wifi status (either blocked (by rfkill), not connected or the IPv6 and then wifi strength, mame and the IPv4)
- Ethernet status (either down or the IPv4)
- Battery status (charging etc., percentage and time left)
- How much space in the FS is free
- loadavg and temperature of CPU
- Formerly i8k data, including fans status, but that’s not a thing anymore on my new Laptop
- memory used and memory easy free
- the current time (%a %F %T)
Nearly everything is colored based on status (interfaces down -> red, up -> green, battery full -> green, load memory usage over 90% -> red etc.)
starman@programming.dev 11 months ago
I use waybar, with: