I wanted to keep my status bar simple, and slstatus fitted the bill
But I was missing an indication of the CPU temperature as I got tired of using conky as it was only visible on empty DWM tags, and I didn't want to try writing a program in C to do it.
So a new status monitor was needed. I liked the idea of dwmblocks firing up bash scripts, but I tried the original and several forks without luck. I finally settled on dwmblocks-async, because it is more recent and ... it worked.
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