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@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ slstatus **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). +If you write a bash script that shows system information in WM_NAME, it executes a huge amount of external command (top, free etc.) every few seconds. This results in high system resource usage. slstatus solves this problem by only using C libraries and/or reading from files in sysfs / procfs. + +Looking at the LOC (lines of code) in the [Conky project](https://github.com/brndnmtthws/conky) is very interesting: **28.346 lines C++, 219 lines Python and 110 lines Lua**. slstatus currently has about 500 lines of clean, well commented C code and even includes additional possibilities as it can be customized and extended very easily. Configuring it by editing config.h (a C header file) is very secure and fast as no config files are parsed at runtime. + The following information is included: - battery percentage @@ -17,7 +21,7 @@ The following information is included: - volume percentage (alsa) - wifi percentage -Multiple entries per function are supported and everything can be reordered and customized via a C header file (similar to DWM). +Multiple entries per function are supported and everything can be reordered and customized via the C header file config.h (similar to DWM).  @@ -25,7 +29,7 @@ Multiple entries per function are supported and everything can be reordered and ### 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! +Before you continue, please be sure that a C compiler, GNU make and `alsa-lib` (for volume percentage) are installed. Then copy config.def.h to config.h and edit it to your needs. Recompile and install it after every change via `sudo make install`! ### Starting |