Fixing spectrwm config.

baraction.sh

@@ -1,12 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # baraction.sh for spectrwm status bar
 
-## DATE
-dte() {
-  dte="$(date +"%A, %B %d %l:%M%p")"
-  echo -e "$dte"
-}
-
 ## DISK
 hdd() {
   hdd="$(df -h | awk 'NR==4{print $3, $5}')"
@@ -15,7 +9,7 @@ hdd() {
 
 ## RAM
 mem() {
-  mem=`free | awk '/Mem/ {printf "%d MiB/%d MiB\n", $3 / 1024.0, $2 / 1024.0 }'`
+  mem=`free | awk '/Mem/ {printf "%dM/%dM\n", $3 / 1024.0, $2 / 1024.0 }'`
   echo -e "$mem"
 }
 
@@ -32,13 +26,18 @@ cpu() {
 
 ## VOLUME
 vol() {
-    vol=`amixer get Master | awk -F'[][]' 'END{ print $4":"$2 }'`
+    vol=`amixer get Master | awk -F'[][]' 'END{ print $4":"$2 }' | sed 's/on://g'`
     echo -e "VOL: $vol"
 }
 
-SLEEP_SEC=5
+SLEEP_SEC=3
 #loops forever outputting a line every SLEEP_SEC secs
+
+# It seems that we are limited to how many characters can be displayed via
+# the baraction script output. And the the markup tags count in that limit.
+# So I would love to add more functions to this script but it makes the 
+# echo output too long to display correctly.
 while :; do
-    echo "+@fg=1; +@fn=1;💻+@fn=0; $(cpu) +@fg=0; | +@fg=2;  +@fn=1;💾+@fn=0; $(mem) +@fg=0; | +@fg=3; +@fn=1;💿+@fn=0; $(hdd) +@fg=0; | +@fg=4; +@fn=1;🔈+@fn=0; $(vol) +@fg=0; |"
+    echo "+@fg=1; +@fn=1;💻+@fn=0; $(cpu) +@fg=0; | +@fg=2; +@fn=1;💾+@fn=0; $(mem) +@fg=0; | +@fg=3; +@fn=1;💿+@fn=0; $(hdd) +@fg=0; | +@fg=4; +@fn=1;🔈+@fn=0; $(vol) +@fg=0; |"
 	sleep $SLEEP_SEC
 done