slstatus, the suckless status bar

In this video I go over the installation and configuration of slstatus on Debian... Installed the Debian way. It is a fantastic piece of software that has completely replaced my dwm bar script and dwmblocks.
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[@staticdominguez]

I literally started messing around with DWM, and your videos are extremely helpful. Keep it up!!!

[@GopinathSadasivam]

You are exactly the guy I want to follow, debian+dwm+btrfs topics all are gold, I got an amazing setup bcoz of you! Thanks a ton! PS: you have saved me countless hours (and multiply that with other viewers count) you rock!

[@linuxdabbler]

@Gopinath Sadasivam. I'm so happy to hear that. Really glad you found my content useful. I bet your setup is amazing. This comment made my day... You rock!

[@blackie5566]

Last weekend I dived into your great and helpful videos. I riced up my dwm and slstatus-bar. Those suckless-things are highly addictive and great fun. Thanks for all your work and helpful videos! This is highly appreciated.

[@veli86]

Loving your content! These videos are such a great help!

[@cjennings]

Great video. I've been looking for this kind of configuration video on slstatus for a while. Really helpful - I'm going to scrap my custom script today!. Happy to know you're a Debian fan as well! Thanks for all the good content.

[@linuxdabbler]

Honestly, there is probably something useful in your custom script that could be included in slstatus with a run_command line.

[@williamjohn1815]

Nice video & content. slsataus is new to me also. Thanks

[@kelley64]

Thanks for the advice and weather script. Way better than blocks.

[@linuxdabbler]

Slststus doesn't update as quickly as dwmblocks does for volume adjustments. But I can live with that

[@pabloschool2610]

one note of caution, if your debugging your slstatus (like me), any you run it multiple times, you may see it blink and find it quite annoying. All you have to do is pkill slstatus and it stops blinking!

[@miyolinux]

Thanks LD. I'm ashamed to say that I wasn't aware of this suckless tool. :o

[@linuxdabbler]

@Miyo Linux i don't think most people are aware of it. But I do like it a lot... By the way, your comment came in as I was watching your part 3 build of miyolinux... It threw me for a loop.

[@miyolinux]

@@linuxdabbler :o Those videos are basic instructions. I do a lot more under the hood. If I had shown the entire process that I use, it would have been something like a 20 part series...with sub videos...and would take 80 hours to watch. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! Thanks LD! ...and hey man, in all seriousness, my deepest gratitude to you for making the video to help Dennis. If you hadn't done that, I wouldn't have known how to help. So, thank you.

[@thierrybo6304]

Hi, I just begin learning dwm and for slstatus I followed your video that was invaluable for me. About the way you handle weather I believe it is over complicated. I do not know if you are aware that you can format wttr output to almost what you want, avoiding parsing the weather.txt file. in *weather.sh* I use: *curl **wttr.in?format="%c+%C+%t **" > ~/.local/share/weather.txt* and I get: 🌫 Mist +3°C so in *weatherbar.sh* i have only these two lines: _weather=$(cat ~/.local/share/weather.txt)_ _echo $weather_

[@pongo1085]

Hey there I don't have a suckless directory, is there any ways of alternating from this?

[@linuxdabbler]

@Pongo. If I am understanding your question correctly. It would not matter if you had a suckless folder or not... As long as the path to the binary is correct, it should work... You could place that slstatus folder anywhere in your home directory. I know a lot of people who put it in their .config folder. example: If you put the slstatus folder in .config and were symlinking the binary like I am... the syntax would look something like this... ln -sf /home/pongo/.config/slstatus/slstatus /home/pongo/.local/bin/ or you could use the "~" to make it shorter.. ln -sf ~/.config/slstatus/slstatus ~/.local/bin/ Hope this helps.

[@pongo1085]

@@linuxdabbler Yeah man it did! got it up n running! thanks dude!

[@ginjalkesayangan]

why am i doesn't have .dwm directory and autostart.sh file, pls help

[@linuxdabbler]

To make dwm work with a display manager, you would need to apply the autostart patch, then create a hidden folder in your home directory at ~/.dwm inside that folder, you would need to create an executable file called autostart.sh This file contains all of the things you would wish to start automatically when dwm starts... It would be in the same format as your .xinitrc file. An example of this is now on my GitHub page. github.com/linuxdabbler/dwm

[@linuxdabbler]

@Orang Ipa. If you haven't patched dwm with the autostart patch, you can add the commands you want in ~/.xinitrc and use startx from a TTY.

[@ginjalkesayangan]

@@linuxdabbler im not using display manager and i tried putting "exec slstatus" in .xinitrc and it doesnt work

[@linuxdabbler]

@Orang Ipa. Hmm... I ran into that a while back... I just had to double check myself.... Making sure that the slstatus program was in the PATH (I symlink it to /usr/local/bin). And include a & after each item in the .xinitrc file except the last entry. I would also try slstatus & Without exec in front.

[@ginjalkesayangan]

@@linuxdabbler oh, ok thank you so much for the help

[@ayoodawg1104]

you sound identical to distro tube

[@MrRenanwill]

The unique think in common for me is that both speaks english. I find this channel better than DT. =)

[@mariuspy]

Hi, thank you for the video, just wanted to say that in Ubuntu the auto start with .xinitrc didn't work. I put it in ~/.profile, and it did