README.md

   1 khatus
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   3 ![mascot](mascot.jpg)
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   5 Experimental system-monitor and status (bar) reporter I use with
   6 [dwm](https://dwm.suckless.org/) on GNU/Linux.
   7
   8 ![screenshot](screenshot.jpg)
   9
  10 The approaches experimented-with so far, numbered in chronological order of
  11 origin (i.e. later versions do not _necessarily_ obsolete earlier ones, they're
  12 just different):
  13
  14 ### v1
  15 A single, synchronous script, saving state in text files (Bash and AWK).
  16
  17 ### v2
  18 Parallel processes: collectors, cacher and reporters; passing messages over pipes
  19 (Bash and AWK).
  20
  21 ### v3
  22 Clean-up, polish and further development of main ideas learned in v2.