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dzen:battery-meter

2008-04-07T22:31:59+02:00

Laptop Battery Info The script reads out your laptop battery data automatically and draws a gdbar with your remaining battery power. It also changes the color when battery is low. The icon is taken out of Rob's Icon Pack (battery.xbm) #!/bin/sh # # by lyon8 (lyon8@gmx.net) # show your laptop battery state in dzen BG='#000' # dzen backgrounad FG='#999' # dzen foreground W=150 # width of the dzen bar GW=50 # width of the gauge GFG='#999' # color of the gauge GH=7 # height…

dzen:calendar

2008-07-09T16:42:59+02:00

Popup calendar using dzen Version with hilights #!/bin/bash # # pop-up calendar for dzen # # (c) 2007, by Robert Manea # TODAY=$(expr `date +'%d'` + 0) MONTH=`date +'%m'` YEAR=`date +'%Y'` ( echo '^bg(grey70)^fg(#111111)' date +'%A, %d.%m.%Y %H:%M' # current month, highlight header and today cal | sed -r -e "1,2 s/.*/^fg(white)&^fg()/" \ -e "s/(^| )($TODAY)($| )/\1^bg(white)^fg(#111)\2^fg()^bg()\3/" # next month, hilight header [ $MONTH -eq 12 ] && YEAR=`expr $YEAR + 1` cal…

dzen:clear-slave-window

2008-04-08T11:33:56+02:00

Clear Slave Window You need the latest SVN dzen for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Usage The development version features an “in-text command” ^cs() that allows you to clear the slave window. In order to show how this can be useful we will rewrite the example to the ”-u” Option in dzen's documentation to use ^cs().

dzen:command-and-option-list

2009-03-10T18:43:58+02:00

This lists describes the command line options and in-text formating commands that can be used with the latest development version of dzen. Execute the following command to fetch the latest development version: svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen

dzen:complex-widgets

2008-06-16T18:42:21+02:00

Building complex widgets with dzen You need the latest SVN dzen for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen The new syntax The development version supports a more advanced syntax to the ^p() and ^pa() commands allowing us to build complex widgets quite easily.

dzen:cpu-graph

2008-04-08T11:22:12+02:00

Cpu graph You need the latest SVN dzen for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Options gcpubar has undergone some changes and accepts some new options: -s Style, can be either o(utlined)gauge, g(raph), v(ertical), p(ie) or the default gauge if no parameter is specified -gw Width of the graph elements -gs Space between the graph elemements -sw Width of the bar segments -sh Height of the vertical bar segments -ss Space between the bar segments…

dzen:debian-update-checker

2008-04-08T12:47:24+02:00

Debian Update Checker Shows number of packages that need updating in the title window and the spefic packages in the slave window. This script is intended to be run from a cron job. It may need root privileges. Script #!/bin/sh # # Debian update checker # # (c) 2007 by Robert Manea # TMPFILE=/tmp/duc.$$ apt-get update > /dev/null && \ apt-get -s upgrade | sed -ne 's/^Inst $.*$/\1/p' > $TMPFILE NRUPDATES=`cat $TMPFILE| wc -l` if [ $NRUPDATES != "0" ]; then (echo "^fg(red)$NRUPDATE…

dzen:disk-monitor-controls

2008-04-08T12:50:54+02:00

Disk Monitor widgets Diskusage Monitor This script lets you see your diskusage. It uses gawk (GNU awk) extensions. Currently it shows the first line of output of df in the titlewindow, in my case that's the / partition. I'm not sure if that's always the case, comments welcome. Because it uses ^tw() and ^cs() you'll need Dzen from SVN.

dzen:dynamic-grow-shrink

2008-04-08T22:48:06+02:00

Dynamically grow/shrink the title window You need the latest SVN dzen for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen In some cases (statusbars) you want dzen's title window to to grow/shrink dynamically with the width of its contents. The -expand option provides this feature.

dzen:dz9menu

2009-04-08T11:45:23+02:00

This script uses the “menuprint_noparse” action, so you need the latest SVN dzen for it to work: svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Creates dzen menus from 9menu input files NOTE: If you are using any dzen formating commands in the description field of the menu file you must supply an application to launch!

dzen:dzen-and-xmonad

2009-04-17T00:58:46+02:00

Xmonad and dzen Xmonad is a tiling window manager for X. It is written in haskell and offers a lot of cool features to play with. Due to it's design principles and slim codebase xmonad does not have any builtin means for statusbars, although it does support a configuration option, that will set aside unmanaged screen space. That is where dzen kicks in.

dzen:dzen-music-controls

2008-04-08T13:17:06+02:00

Music Control MPD Widget This version uses mpd, mpc and gdbar. Mousebindings: Left mousebutton selects previous song. Right mousebutton selects next song. Middle mousebutton (wheel) toggles play/pause. Mousewheel up seeks backwards in current song.

dzen:dzen-vs-xmobar

2009-05-07T23:45:06+02:00

Feature dzen xmobar Color arbitrary parts of the line yes yes Display multiple lines yes no Icons yes no Graphics yes no Pixel accurate positioning yes no Escape character yes no Mouse interaction yes no Keyboard interaction yes no…

dzen:external-links

2008-09-02T16:03:31+02:00

Links * Tech Life of Recht * Xmonad und dzen * Dzen: pop-up windows from the command-line * Dzen screencast * dzen & xmobar Hacking Thread * Screenshots with some nice dzen setups * FVWM and dzen * Nice dzen weather and status bar * Python dzen wrapper * "Amazing" - a wrapper that can be used with dzen * dtwitzen - a compact twitter client using dzen * pipe-notification - pidgin notifications for dzen

dzen:gdbar-styles

2008-04-08T11:15:51+02:00

Gdbar styles You need the latest SVN dzen for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen gdbar has undergone some changes and accepts some new options: -s Style, can be either o(utlined) gauge, v(ertical), p(ie) or the default gauge if no parameter is specified -sw Width of the segments -sh Height of the vertical segments -ss Space between the segments

dzen:gmail-notify

2008-04-08T12:46:07+02:00

Gmail Notify This script is written in python and is meant to provide mail notification for a gmail account. How it looks What you need Python with urllib and feedparser modules (should all be there in any Linux distro). The latest development version of dzen which supports intext formatting.

dzen:icon-packs

2010-09-06T22:32:32+02:00

Icon Packs Using icons with dzen As dzen supports only the XBM and XPM image formats it might be a need to convert icons from other formats to these. A very simple and fast method to do so is using the great ImageMagick tool chain. As an example the script below will convert all PNG files in the current directory to XPM and rescale them to 14×14 pixels:

dzen:irssi-notify

2008-04-08T16:56:55+02:00

Irssi Notification System Never miss a message again... Requirements * Irssi * Trigger script (modified trigger script with timestamp support) Usage We will use trigger to catch specific events in irssi, format them up nicely and write them to a named pipe.

dzen:mainindex

2009-05-07T23:48:31+02:00

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.

dzen:memory-meter

2008-04-08T12:53:14+02:00

Memory usage meter Collapsed view: Detailed view: This script makes use of gdbar which is included in the dzen release. #!/bin/bash # # (c) 2007 by Robert Manea # # Left mouse button toggles detailed view # Right mouse button quits #--[ Configuration ]--------------------------------------------------- # bg color BG='#494b4f' # fg color FG='grey70' # font FNT='-*-profont-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859' # x position XPOS=1435 # y position YPOS=0 # title width TWIDTH=125 # details area w…

dzen:multiplexer

2008-07-21T18:17:30+02:00

Dzen multiplexer dmplex is useful if you want to combine multiple input sources into a single dzen instance. Basically we split the dzen window up into numbered sections and let dmplex handle the layout, we just need to supply the number and value of the section we want to alter.

dzen:nagios-notify

2008-09-29T17:18:26+02:00

Nagios Notify This bunch of perl scripts are meant to parse emails from Nagios and notify about events using popups and statusbar. How it looks These are two shots of statusbar in “all is ok” and “something wrong” modes: The meaning is: H(ost): / S(ervice): //

dzen:network-meter

2008-12-09T21:21:17+02:00

Network Meter You can find the icons on the Icon-Packs page. Script #!/bin/sh # # (c) 2007, by Robert Manea # icons ICONPATH=$HOME/.dzen # network interface INTERFACE=eth0 # update every x seconds SLEEP=1 #colors FG='#ccc' BG='#222' #geometry WIDTH=210 X=917 Y=0 # Here we remember the previous rx/tx counts RXB=`cat /sys/class/net/${INTERFACE}/statistics/rx_bytes` TXB=`cat /sys/class/net/${INTERFACE}/statistics/tx_bytes` while :; do # get new rx/tx counts RXBN=`cat /sys/class/ne…

dzen:openbsd-example-statusbar

2008-04-08T22:14:18+02:00

Example Status Bar for OpenBSD This script creates a simple status bar showing battery and network information. A lot of it is inspired from other great scripts I found on this wiki. For it to work you need to be using at least OpenBSD 4.2 and you need the net/ifstat package installed.

dzen:option-e

2008-10-13T16:03:46+02:00

Events and actions Dzen allows the user to associate actions to events. The command line syntax is as follows: -e 'event1=action1:option1:...option,...,action;...;event' Every event can take any number of actions and every action can take any number of options. (By default limited to 64 each, easily changable in action.h)

dzen:option-l

2008-06-01T16:01:34+02:00

Enables support for displaying multiple lines. The parameter to ”-l” specifies the number of lines to be displayed. These lines of input are held in the slave window which becomes active as soon as the pointer enters the title window (default action).

dzen:option-m

2008-07-03T00:22:42+02:00

Menu mode Dzen provides two menu modes, vertical and horizontal menus. You can access these modes by adding 'v'(ertical) or 'h'(orizontal) to the '-m' option. If nothing is specified dzen defaults to vertical menus. Vertical menu, both invocations are equivalent:

dzen:procrastination-hack

2008-04-08T13:04:12+02:00

Dzen Procrastination Hack Prerequisites This script is implemented in Python. It uses pexpect to control dzen2. The beep command is used to inform the user that work (or pause) is over. The script Copy and paste the following lines into a file, say “ten_two_five.py”. Make it executable (chmod u+x ten_two_five.py) or feed it as argument into the python interpreter.

dzen:remind

2008-07-10T22:00:41+02:00

Dzen2 Remind script This is a simple dzen script to be used with remind to show the reminders of the next four weeks, with today's reminders highlighted. It only shows ten lines, but you can scroll through it with your mouse. Right clicking on the script exits it.

dzen:scheme-monitor

2008-04-08T13:05:19+02:00

System monitor in Scheme A system monitor written in the Scheme language by tizoc. (use srfi-13) (use srfi-1) (use gauche.process) ;; = Config = (define DATE-FORMAT "'%A, %d.%m.%Y %H:%M:%S'") (define DZEN-ICONPATH "/home/bruno/.config/dzen2/bitmaps") ;; Appareance (define FONT "'-*-profont-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859'") (define BACKGROUND-COLOR "'#2c2c32'") (define ALTERNATE-BACKGROUND-COLOR "'#494b4f'") (define FOREGROUND-COLOR "'grey70'") (define SEPARATOR "^p(3)^r(3x3)^p(3)") ;; Cpu s…

dzen:screen-bottom

2009-02-02T17:18:29+02:00

Dzen at the bottom of the screen Geometry and negative "-y" options You need the latest development version for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Usage dzen2 -geometry +0-0 dzen2 -y -1 Shell function This works with the stable release

dzen:screenshots

2009-03-20T21:33:41+02:00

User screenshots Dzen and Xmonad Rob's desktop Clickable workspaces Dzen as menu and statusbar Custom gauge Outlined dzen bars Tiny bar Slave window Dzen and FVWM Array Polachok's fwm desktop

dzen:volume-meter

2008-04-08T12:33:42+02:00

Volume meter Script This version uses amixer and gdbar You can control the Volume with your scrollwheel. Note that it is probably buggy because i parse the output of amixer, and I'm not sure what soundcards are out there. In the comments you find a version with aumix.

dzen:wireless-meter

2008-04-08T12:58:54+02:00

Wireless Meter You can find the icons on the Icon-Packs page. WIRELESS=yes will enable the wireless extension. You need the latest SVN dzen for this to work. svn checkout http://dzen.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ dzen Script #!/bin/bash # # (c) 2007, by Robert Manea # (c) 2007, Christian Dietrich # icons ICONPATH=$HOME/.dzen # network interface INTERFACE=wlan0 WIRELESS=yes # update every x seconds SLEEP=1 FG='#ccc' BG='#222' BBG='#333' # Bar Background BFG=green # Bar Foreground X=77…