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Outputs the current EWMH desktop name and window title

Description

The output of ewmhstatus shall be fed to dzen2.

Provide the current desktop name and window title.

Read external informations from the fifo defined by the EWMHSTATUS_FIFO environment variable.

Usage

ewmhstatus [FONT_FAMILY [FONT_SIZE [HORIZONTAL_PADDING]]]

Layout

Current Desktop Name        Current Window Title         Fifo Informations

Example Panel

[ -e "$EWMHSTATUS_FIFO" ] && rm "$EWMHSTATUS_FIFO"
mkfifo "$EWMHSTATUS_FIFO"
ewmhstatus | dzen2 -ta l &
i3status > "$EWMHSTATUS_FIFO" &

Requirements

XCB, Cairo.