Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by liamg » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal
github.com

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by flippyhead » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 6:39 PM UTC

Neat! I rarely mess with my prompt but actually now that I've seen this seeing things like CPU especially in a development context could be quite useful.

Also, it would be great to see more examples.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by mdszy » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

Why not just use tmux? Then you get all the features that comes with too.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 7:00 PM UTC

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Post by nels » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 7:09 PM UTC

Nice! This seems like a great status bar solution that is independent of which terminal you use.

For iTerm users, there's a built-in feature that works very well: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-status-bar.html

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by Kaze404 » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

mdszy wrote: post #3

Why not just use tmux? Then you get all the features that comes with too.

Because I have no need for them

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by colecut » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

Kaze404 wrote: post #6

mdszy wrote: post #3

Why not just use tmux? Then you get all the features that comes with too.

Because I have no need for them

Anyone who would not benefit from tmux must only very rarely use the terminal, or not at all. This isn't a dig at this tool, just a strong endorsement for tmux =)

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by rcarmo » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 8:05 PM UTC

Nice. I have almost exactly the same indicators on my tmux configuration. A bit curious as to how this plays along with mc and vim, will try it.

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by yur3i__ » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 8:14 PM UTC

colecut wrote: post #7

Kaze404 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I have no need for them

Anyone who would not benefit from tmux must only very rarely use the terminal, or not at all. This isn't a dig at this tool, just a strong endorsement for tmux =)

I use the terminal for almost everything but rarely use tmux, I have a window manager for window management so tmux doesn't really seem too useful in that regard

Re: Show HN: Shox: A customisable status bar for your terminal

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Post by thrownaway954 » Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 8:21 PM UTC

again... again... I have to be the jerk here.

why is there nothing that shows what this does on the project page? You've spent countless hours creating this thing, yet you can't spend 10 more minutes showing off the capabilities?

you have a static PNG image that is confusing at best. create a 15 second animated GIF that shows off your work.