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Although the standard dwm patch for clickable status requires the use of BSD user signals, would it be worth programming an alternate interface and a custom dwm patch which uses some other RPC mechanism. For instance, a simple named pipe would do. We could have dwm write the index of the block into the FIFO. Then, all gocaudices has to do is have a goroutine waiting for the data (FIFOs are buffered) and send a signal over a channel when data is recieved. This would be much cleaner than all the cgo stuff you had to do for signals.

The downside of this is, obviously, that you can't use the stock dwm clickablestatus patch, but I think this could be well worth the cost of a separate patch to remove all the C signal handling.

I'll do some more research into named pipes and, if you want, start a draft PR.

By default, the code is trimming space characters in the blocks. I've seen the function barBytesArr[b.pos] = bytes.TrimSpace(outputBytes) in line 37. However I don't know how to disable this "feature", and would like to separate the blocks using space characters.

Thanks for the software.

I don't know if I am confused with the readme or a problem with the script or my system,no matter running this from any veriation of .profile,autostart.sh patch for dwm with our without tsp with all of the above*
but as soon as i login and run it by myself through the terminal everythin's fine,
Just in case I also checked if I have multiple versions installed but that ain't it,im confused at this point

tsp:(helps "stabilize"baddly setup startups of programs,or thats what I have noticed in the past)