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# Lemonbuddy
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A fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
**Lemonbuddy** aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars
for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.
Heres a few screenshots showing you what it can look like:
[![sample screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/xvlw9iHt.png)](http://i.imgur.com/xvlw9iH.png)
[![sample screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/cYQOuRrt.png)](http://i.imgur.com/cYQOuRr.png)
[![sample screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/A6spiZZt.png)](http://i.imgur.com/A6spiZZ.png)
[![sample screenshot](http://i.imgur.com/TY5a5r9t.png)](http://i.imgur.com/TY5a5r9.png)
Please note that the project still is in early development, so please report any
problems by [creating an issue ticket](https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy/issues/new).
## Table of Contents
* [Introduction](#introduction)
* [Getting started](#getting-started)
* [Dependencies](#dependencies)
* [Building from source](#building-from-source)
* [Configuration](#configuration)
* [Running](#running)
* [License](#license)
## Introduction
The main purpose of **Lemonbuddy** is to help users create awesome status bars.
It has built-in functionality to generate content for the most commonly used widgets, such as:
- Playback controls and status display for [MPD](https://www.musicpd.org/) using [libmpdclient](https://www.musicpd.org/libs/libmpdclient/)
- [ALSA](http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page) volume controls
- Workspace and desktop panel for [bspwm](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm) and [i3](https://github.com/i3/i3)
- CPU and memory load indicator
- Battery display
- Network connection details
- Backlight level
- Date and time label
- Time-based shell script execution
- Command output tailing
- User-defined menu tree
- And more...
Each bar contains a set of modules, which in turn defines a set of formatting rules and options.
Read more about [how the configuration works](#configuration).
## Getting started
If you are using **Arch Linux**, you can install the AUR package [lemonbuddy-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lemonbuddy-git/) to get the latest version, or
[lemonbuddy](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lemonbuddy/) for the latest stable release.
If you create a package for any other distribution, please consider contributing the template so that we can make the application
available for more people.
### Dependencies
- clang-3.4+
- cmake
- boost
- xcb-util-wm
- libXft
- python2
Optional dependencies for module support:
- wireless_tools (required for `internal/network` support)
- alsa-lib (required for `internal/volume` support)
- libmpdclient (required for `internal/mpd` support)
~~~ sh
$ pacman -S clang35 cmake python2 boost xcb-util-wm libxft wireless_tools alsa-lib libmpdclient
$ apt-get install clang-3.8 libc++-dev libc++abi-dev cmake cmake-data libboost-dev libfreetype6-dev libxcb1-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev xcb-proto python-xcbgen i3-wm libiw-dev libasound2-dev libmpdclient-dev
~~~
### Building from source
Please [report any problems](https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy/issues/new) you run into when building the project.
~~~ sh
$ git clone --branch 2.1.1 --recursive https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy
$ mkdir lemonbuddy/build
$ cd lemonbuddy/build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
$ sudo make install
~~~
### Configuration
*Details on how to setup and configure the bar and each module have been moved to [the wiki](https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy/wiki/Configuration).*
Before customizing the bar, make sure everything works as expected by trying
out one of the example configurations installed with the application.
The following code will get you started:
~~~ sh
# Create the config root directory
$ mkdir -p ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/lemonbuddy
$ cd ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/lemonbuddy
# Copy sample config for the running wm (uses a wm agnostic config as fallback)
$ __wm=$(pgrep -l -x "(bspwm|i3)"); __prefix=$(which lemonbuddy)
$ cp "${__prefix%%/bin*}/share/examples/lemonbuddy/config${__wm:+.${__wm##* }}" config
# Launch the bar
# (where "example" is the name of the bar as defined by [bar/NAME] in the config)
$ lemonbuddy example
~~~
**NOTE:** If the bar output looks odd, it's probably because you're
missing he fonts defined in the config. Update the config or install the
missing fonts.
### Running
See the wiki page on [how to launch the bar when starting your WM](https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy/wiki/Running-the-app).
## License
Lemonbuddy is licensed under the MIT license. [See LICENSE for more information](https://github.com/jaagr/lemonbuddy/blob/master/LICENSE).