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@ -8,6 +8,26 @@ More seriously: you might prefer this over another status bar program
if you want fine-grained control over what is shown in your bar and if you want fine-grained control over what is shown in your bar and
you are happy to exert that control in a Lua-based Lisp language. you are happy to exert that control in a Lua-based Lisp language.
## Current status and usage
Not quite dogfood-ready yet, but fast approaching.
* bl.fnl is an example
* blinkenlicht.fnl is the module that parses `bar` and `indicator`
forms and does all the UI
* also in bl.fnl but needs extracting to a home of its own, all the
glue that looks up load average, wifi signal strength, time of day
etc for indicators to use
Use the `default.nix` for guidance as to libraries and other setup
required - or just use it, of course.
nix-shell
lua $fennel bl.fnl
## Plan ## Plan
* [X] use gtk-layer-shell to put it in a layer * [X] use gtk-layer-shell to put it in a layer
@ -15,8 +35,14 @@ you are happy to exert that control in a Lua-based Lisp language.
* [X] cache icon pixbufs * [X] cache icon pixbufs
* [] update image/label widget instead of destroying * [] update image/label widget instead of destroying
* [] allow height customisation * [] allow height customisation
* [] add some mechanism for indicators that wait for events instead of polling
* [] set poll interval based on indicators' requested intervals
* [] set indicator background colour (use css for this?)
```fennel ```fennel
;; your status bar specification might look something like this
(bar (bar
{ {
:anchor [:top :right] :anchor [:top :right]