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