02/27/2009: SVN revison 255 with a patch from Philip Lewis

• refactored out big block of duplicated code in draw.c:parse_line()
• y tracking for clickable areas (so you can stack buttons on top of each other)
• “block align” formatting command: ^ba(width,align), aligns next block of text in a box of the specified width.

Ex: ^ba(300,CENTER)HELLO WORLD^ba() will create a box 300px wide and center the text “HELLO WORLD” inside of it.

• fixed bug where having position locked at end of line could screw up autoresize
• added optional arguments to menuprint actions that are simply printed after the menu item text. So you can distinguish between different button clicks on the same item, for example.

02/13/2009: SVN revision 251 comes with ^ca() “Clickable Areas” support.

The syntax is: ^ca(mouse_button, command) anything in here ^ca()
This will launch “command” if you click with “mouse_button” into that area

left mouse button = 1
middle mouse button = 2
right mouse button = 3

Example:

echo 'Click ^fg(red)^ca(1,xterm)HERE^fg()^ca() to launch xterm and ^ca(1,xclock)^r(6x6)^fg(green)on me^fg()^ca() for xclock' | dzen2 -p

You can use anything in between the ^ca() commands, like text,colors, icons, etc.

Note this feature is very crude as of now and has a couple of limitations:

• works only in the title window
• does not work together with the ”-expand” command line switch
• cannot be stacked

02/11/2009: SVN revision 241 comes with (optional) XFT support.

The support is enabled by default for testing purposes.
Please report any issues you may experience

Get the latest SVN revision:

svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen

• Command-And-Option-List
  

List of CLI options and in-text commands for the latest development version of dzen

• Option -l : Slave window
• Option -e : Events and actions
• Option -m : Menu

• Dzen-And-Xmonad
  

Step by step development of a statusbar script for dzen under xmonad

• Irssi-Notify
  

Irssi notification system

• Gmail-Notify
  

Provides new mail notification for gmail in dzen

• Debian-Update-Checker
  

Checks for packages that need updating on debian and ubuntu systems and displays a notification

• Nagios-Notify
  

Popups and statusbar for events from Nagios

• Battery-Meter
  

Battery info for laptops

• Disk-Monitor-Controls
  

Shows how much space you use on your partitions

• Memory-Meter
  

Memory usage meters

• Network-Meter
  

Shows up/down traffic rates on a network interface

• Wireless-Meter
  

Shows up/down traffic rates on a network interface, the wireless signal strength and some other informations about the connection

• OpenBSD-Example-Statusbar
  

Example statusbar showing how to retreive system information on OpenBSD

• Scheme-Monitor
  

System monitor written in Scheme

• Dzen-Music-Controls
  

Display and control widgets for different music players

• Volume-Meter
  

Shows volume with a nice bar and controls it with the mouse wheel

• Calendar
  

Popup calendar

• Procrastination-Hack
  

Helps to overcome procrastination by dividing hours into work and pause time

• Remind
  

A simple list showing the reminders of the next four weeks (to be used with remind)

• dz9menu
  

Creates dzen menus from 9menu input files

• kittscanner
  

A KITT scanner in shell script

• pseudo-equalizer
  

A equalizer visualization

• dzen-vs-xmobar
  

Feature comparision between dzen and xmobar

• Complex-Widgets
  

Building complex widgets with dzen

• Multiplexer
  

A simple multiplexer that allows to drive a single dzen bar from multiple sources

• Gdbar-Styles
  

Visual styles supported by the gdbar gadget

• Cpu-Graph
  

An attempt to visualize CPU usage as a graph over time

• Dynamic-Grow-Shrink
  

Automatically fit the width of the title window to its contents

• Clear-Slave-Window
  

An easy and flexible alternative to dzen's ”-u” command line option

• Screen-Bottom
  

Different ways to put dzen at the bottom of your screen

• Screenshots
  

Your screenshots

• Icon-Packs
  

XBM and XPM icon collections that go well with dzen

• External-Links
  

Related sites