rstatusbar

Configurable statusbar in Rust for Xorg server using xsetroot

Caveats

• Dependencies: rust, xorg-xsetroot, curl
• This library has been developed on and for Linux following open source philosophy.

Installation

• Downloading and compiling manually:

git clone https://github.com/javiorfo/rstatusbar
cd rstatusbar
sudo make clean install

• Using cargo:

cargo install rstatusbar

Setup

• In your ~/.xinitrc to start in every login

rstatusbar & 2> rstatusbar_error.log

Overview

Component	rstatusbar	NOTE
CPU usage	✔️	Percentage
RAM usage	✔️	Percentage
TEMPERATURE	✔️	Celcious
DISK USAGE	✔️	Percentage
VOLUME LEVEL	✔️	Level and Mute status
BLUETOOTH	❌
BATTERY LEVEL	✔️	Percentage
CUSTOM SCRIPT	✔️	Execute a custom script.sh
NETWORK STATUS	✔️	Up or down
WEATHER	✔️	Celcious, using wttr
DATE	✔️	Could be custimizable

Customizable

• By default the statusbar contains: cpu usage, memory usage, temperature, disk usage, volume, network status and datetime
• For a custom configuration put this file config.toml in your ~/.config/rstatusbar/config.toml and edit it to change values or delete a component.
• Memory component example in config.toml:

[memory]
time = 1000  # Time in miliseconds defines how often the process runs
name = "RAM" # Name of the component. Could be empty => name = ""
icon = ""   # Icon of the component. Could be empty => icon = ""

Screenshots

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