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Does it come with a built in taskbar and widgets? #159

Closed Joe23232 closed 3 years ago

Joe23232 commented 3 years ago

Hi, I am curious to know, does it come with a built in taskbar and widgets?

Further more am I able to make something like this for the widgets? Extra blue

PalanixYT commented 3 years ago

dwl is supposed to be suckless and thus doesn't provide an inbuilt solution. You can use something like waybar (very customizable) or dtao (lightweight). Making your own is possible too (info gets send to stdin of -s). Check out the discord server, there is some info there and also some example scripts for dtao.

Joe23232 commented 3 years ago

dwl is supposed to be suckless and thus doesn't provide an inbuilt solution.

I thought dwm would provide a taskbar?

You can use something like waybar (very customizable) or dtao (lightweight).

Do they follow the suckless's philosophy as well? And is dtao also customisable?

Check out the discord server, there is some info there and also some example scripts for dtao.

Discord for dtao?

djpohly commented 3 years ago

dwm does provide a status bar, but dwl opts to allow external bars instead (which avoids font rendering dependencies).

dtao is meant to be a dzen2 clone and is not as "hardcore" about being suckless. Its source code is still meant to be fairly simple and easy to customize, and the same community (and Discord server) is generally involved with both.

Joe23232 commented 3 years ago

@djpohly Ah right I see mate,

How is dtao normally meant to be configured? Via shell commands (like lemonbar)?

mhdzli commented 3 years ago

@Joe23232 There is also a yambar script for dwl tags

PalanixYT commented 3 years ago

How is dtao normally meant to be configured? Via shell commands (like lemonbar)? it's a dzen2 replacement but for wayland. It's stdin based

Joe23232 commented 3 years ago

@mhdzli @PalanixYT

Thanks guys :)

PalanixYT commented 3 years ago

close?

yellowhat commented 3 years ago

Is there a specific reason why not merge dtao and dwl? To offer a dwl with a statusbar.

Thanks

djpohly commented 3 years ago

Yes, the reason is so that you can choose any bar that you want, or no bar at all. There is no plan to add a built-in bar because it can be done with external tools in a more suckless/UNIX-y way, which is in line with dwl's design philosophy.