ewmhstatus
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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.