• From: The Collective
  • Registered: 2009-08-21
  • Posts: 186

Re: Living without a panel

@EnochRoot, Have you looked at dzen

It can provide a minimal status bar that could show a clock and various other information without making it feel like a panel to much tongue

aosd_cat is also another OSD option like wlourf suggested but tends to look a bit nicer with fade effects and fonts.  I am also "panelless" (is that a word) and have it bound to F12 for a quick time check when conky is obscured etc.

#!/bin/bash

export DISPLAY=:0
killall aosd_cat
date +"%T %a %d.%m.%Y" | aosd_cat -n "Sans 20 bold" -o 3000 -R yellow -f 0 -p 8

# END
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  • From: London, UK
  • Registered: 2011-10-15
  • Posts: 200

Re: Living without a panel

jelloir wrote:

@EnochRoot, Have you looked at dzen

It can provide a minimal status bar that could show a clock and various other information without making it feel like a panel to much :P

Ah yes dzen thats the little puppy I was thinking of, will give that a try this evening - is it able to hook into the openbox workspaces ?

Cheers

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  • From: London, UK
  • Registered: 2011-10-15
  • Posts: 200

Re: Living without a panel

Anyone got some funky dzen scripts ? Have had a search and seen many screenshots I liked, but the python / shell scripts I found didn't do what I want. Would like to show current and other OpenBox workspaces, current time, disk, cpu, possibly music playing in mpd, volume level / mute etc ?

Cheers

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