dzen2 and conky-cli in dwm

I struggled over the last couple of days to pipe conky into a Dzen2 status bar alongside the default dwm bar.

Here is how I sorted it.

First, I installed conky-cli and dzen2. Conky-cli is in AUR, and dzen2 is in Community:

pacman -S dzen2 && yaourt conky-cli

Then it was a matter of setting up the relevant files.

.xinitrc.sh

#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp &amp;
eval `cat ~/.fehbg` &amp;
numlockx &amp;
xscreensaver -no-splash &amp;
# Dzen &amp; conky
(sleep 15s &amp;&amp; conky | dzen2 -x '500' -e '' -fg '#dcdcdc' -bg '#3f3f3f' \
-w '650' -ta r -fn '-*-terminus-*-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' -p ) &amp;
# Start dwm
exec ck-launch-session ~/Scripts/dwm-start

.conkyrc .sh

background no
out_to_console yes
update_interval 2
total_run_times 0
use_spacer none
double_buffer yes
TEXT
${if_existing /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/present}^i(/home/jason/Build/dwm/dzen/bat.xbm)…

dwm-start .sh

while true; do 
    dwm >/dev/null
done

The key is —and it took me a while to work it out— to delay the loading of conky until after dwm has painted it’s status bar; otherwise conky | dzen2 is obscured.

Now, the “before” shot:

…and the finished product:

jasonwryan.com

Miscellaneous ephemera…

dzen2 and conky-cli in dwm

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