experiment 1

builds/statusbar/statusbar/statusbar.py

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from multiprocessing import Process, Queue
 from collections import defaultdict
-from sys import argv
+from sys import argv, stdout
-from sys import stdout
 from math import floor
+from socket import gethostname
 import datetime
 import signal
 import subprocess
@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ def filemodfactory(filename: str, modname: str):
 
 def new_mail(queue, _):
     while True:
+        try:
             dir_output = os.listdir("/home/usr/Mail/main/INBOX/new")
+        except FileNotFoundError: # we're on the phone, no mail here
+            return
         dir_output = len(dir_output)
         queue.put({
             "module": "newmail",
@@ -69,7 +72,10 @@ def bspwm(queue, monitor):
         socket.AF_UNIX,
         socket.SOCK_STREAM
     )
+    try:
         client.connect("/tmp/bspwm_1_0-socket")
+    except: # perhaps we're on the phone?
+        client.connect("/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/tmp/bspwm_1_0-socket")
 
     message = "subscribe\0".encode()
     client.send(message)
@@ -143,14 +149,8 @@ def render(modules) -> str:
     print(output, end='')
     stdout.flush()
 
-def main():
+def start_statusbars():
-    try:
+    # is there an actually good xrandr library?
-        os.mkdir("/home/usr/.cache/statusbar")
-    except FileExistsError:
-        pass
-
-    if argv[1] == "start_statusbars":
-        # get the monitors
     xrandr = subprocess.Popen(['xrandr'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
     output = list(xrandr.stdout)
     output = [i.decode("utf-8") for i in output if " connected" in i.decode("utf-8")]
@@ -173,7 +173,28 @@ def main():
             *map(str, geometry_splitted),
             displayname
         ))
+
+def main():
+    try:
+        os.mkdir("/home/usr/.cache/statusbar")
+    except FileExistsError:
+        pass
+
+    if argv[1] == "start_statusbars":
+        hostname = gethostname()
+
+        print(hostname)
+        if not hostname == "localhost": # if we're not the phone
+            start_statusbars()
+        else:
+            # we are the phone
+            os.system("st -c statusbar -p -g {}x{}+{}+{} -e statusbar {} & disown".format(
+                1920, 100, 0, 980
+                "VNC-0"
+            ))
+
         return
+
     queue = Queue()
     modules = [bspwm, clock, battery, batterystatus, sxhkdmode, new_mail]
     [Process(target=module, args=(queue, argv[1])).start() for module in modules]