Simple status bar for suckless.org's dwm written in Rust. simbar is intended to be easily configurable and extendable.

There is color support but you have to patch dwm.

You need Xlib to get simbar working.

Per default the config directory is ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/simbar. In this directory you have to create a simbar.toml config file.

In the simbar.toml file you have to call the modules you want to enable. You can configure how often they should be rerun and their color. Here is an example config.

You can change your config at runtime but don't remove or move the simbar.toml file.

Normally, you can set a specific color by adding it directly into your config, but you can replace a color code with xresources and the color is generated by querying XRDB.

You can update the status bar from external scripts simply by running:

simbar --once

No signalling needed.