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authordaniel-Jones <daniel@danieljon.es>2018-09-19 16:41:07 +0930
committerdaniel-Jones <daniel@danieljon.es>2018-09-19 16:41:07 +0930
commitbab98314d8cf2b4d8ba5b0b018f654ba8729d0a0 (patch)
tree087e8a296c46336dea0e9702127df8c2200a59de
parent357fc5ac5076231584e02eaa6e687c655a66c482 (diff)
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added readme allows bormal time output
set env variable 'binstatus' to 'dec' to output decimal time HH:MM.
-rw-r--r--README.md12
-rw-r--r--binstatus.c19
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fa66640
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+By default this program will set your root windows name to the time in binary, however if you set the environment variable binstatus to 'dec' (export binstatus=dec' it will display the time as hh:mm.
+
+
+compile:
+````cc binstatus.c -lX11 -o binstatus````
+
+
+run:
+````./binstatus &````
+
+
+You may prefer to put this in your .xinitrc file.
diff --git a/binstatus.c b/binstatus.c
index eabaf3c..1b88afb 100644
--- a/binstatus.c
+++ b/binstatus.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
*/
#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>
@@ -38,6 +39,21 @@ gettime(int *store)
store[1] = tm->tm_min;
}
+void
+formatstring(char *status, int *time)
+{
+ char *env = getenv("binstatus");
+ if (strcmp(env, "dec") == 0)
+ {
+ snprintf(status, MAXLENGTH, "%02d:%02d", time[0], time[1]);
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ sprintf(status, "%05d %06d", dectobin(time[0]),
+ dectobin(time[1]));
+ }
+}
+
int
main(void)
{
@@ -53,8 +69,7 @@ main(void)
while (1)
{
gettime(time);
- sprintf(status, "%05d %06d", dectobin(time[0]),
- dectobin(time[1]));
+ formatstring(status, time);
int res = XStoreName(dsp, DefaultRootWindow(dsp), status);
if (res == BadAlloc)
{