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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:47:25 -0500
From: sl@stanleylieber.com
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Subject: Re: [9front] Bounties
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> From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
> To: 9front@9front.org
> Subject: Re: [9front] Bounties
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> On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, at 7:06 AM, Jens Staal wrote:
>> [2] A bar for the i3-like rio replacement with useful info = 30 €
>> 
>> Some info that should be possible to display: workspaces, system info (cpu load,
>> memory load, network load, ...), digital 24h clock. If not configurable, the bar
>> should be at the top of the screen on all work spaces.
> 
> I wouldn't make this as described, it's making extra code with a different
> interface for no reason; very un-9ish. ;)

This is trivial to implement with existing tools:

	; font=/lib/font/bit/lucidasans/boldunicode.7.font \
		@{while(){ hstats; sleep 60 }} | \
		aux/statusmsg -w 1082,5,1400,59 &	# [0]

sl

[0] http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/rc/hstats