Xfce4 General Monitor Widgets

A set of widgets I've constructed for xfce4-panel, using the General Monitor plugin, to display helpful status information with mild interactivity.

General Requirements:

• bash
• FontAwesome icons as provided in Nerd Fonts

Player Status

A small player status widget which shows information from the currently-active MPRIS-compliant player.

Requirements:

• playerctl

RSS Feeds

Queries the current number of unread items from a greader-compatible web feedreader. (Built for FreshRSS.)

Requirements:

• FreshRSS or theoretically any greader-compatible feedreader, running on your server
• jq
• dirname
• realpath
• awk
• curl

Configuration

Create a file named rss-auth that contains the following fields:

greader;$URL	// root of greader-compliant feed reader
email;$EMAIL 	// user used to login to service
passwd;$PASSWD 	// password used for api

Todoist

Displays how many tasks you have remaining for today. (Both today's and overdue tasks.) Provides a tooltip showing a summary of the tasks.

Requirements:

• A Todoist account
• todoist (cli)
• ansifilter
• unbuffer
• awk
• head
• column