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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jaagr/lemonbuddy.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jaagr/lemonbuddy)
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[![MIT License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/mashape/apistatus.svg?maxAge=2592000?style=plastic)](https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy/blob/master/LICENSE)
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A fast and easy-to-use tool for generating status bars.
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A fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
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**Lemonbuddy** aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars
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for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.
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## Introduction
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The main purpose of **Lemonbuddy** is serve as content generator for status bars.
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It has built-in functionality to generate output for the most commonly used widgets, such as:
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The main purpose of **Lemonbuddy** is to help users create awesome status bars.
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It has built-in functionality to generate content for the most commonly used data, such as:
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- Playback controls and status display for [MPD](https://www.musicpd.org/) using [libmpdclient](https://www.musicpd.org/libs/libmpdclient/)
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- [ALSA](http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page) volume controls
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Each bar contains a set of modules, which in turn defines a set of formatting rules and options.
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Read more about [how the configuration works](#configuration).
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The project was developed specifically for Lemonbar, and the initial plan was to
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integrate a trimmed down version of it into Lemonbuddy. This would remove the need of having
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to pass data back and forth between the two processes.
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After spending time trying to create an interface to the Lemonbar source code, I
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decided to not use it at all. Lemonbar is a great application but it would be
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more efficient to write a custom X rendering implementation instead of trying
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to patch up Lemonbar. Not only does it fix the
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*"Lemonbuddy doesn't work with my extra-custom-lemonbar-fork"* issue, it also
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makes it alot easier to implement new features... The performance boost is of
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course also welcome to join the party, so that's nice.
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The new implementation will use the same `%{...}` syntax Lemonbar uses, which means that
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existing configurations will still work, so keep ricing.
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## Getting started
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If you are using **Arch Linux**, you can install the AUR package [lemonbuddy-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lemonbuddy-git/) to get the latest version, or
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~~~ ini
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[settings]
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; Limit the amount of update events within a set timeframe:
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; - "Allow <throttle_limit> updates within <throttle_ms> of time"
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; - "Allow <throttle-limit> updates within <throttle-ms> of time"
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; Default values:
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throttle_limit = 3
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throttle_ms = 60
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throttle-limit = 3
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throttle-ms = 60
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~~~
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;interval = 1.0
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; see "man date" for details on how to format the date string
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; NOTE: if you want to use lemonbar tags here you need to use %%{...}
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; NOTE: if you want to use syntax tags here you need to use %%{...}
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date = %Y-%m-%d% %H:%M
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; if `date-alt` is defined, clicking the area will toggle between formats
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##### Extra formatting (example)
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~~~ ini
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; workspace_icon-[0-9]+ = label;icon
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; ws-icon-[0-9]+ = label;icon
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ws-icon-0 = 1;♚
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ws-icon-1 = 2;♛
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ws-icon-2 = 3;♜
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