tprogbar is a simple commandline tool to help you make your our ASCII progress bar.

To install tprogbar you can edit the Makefile to match your local setup (tprogbar is installed into the /usr/local/bin by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to install tprogbar (if necessary as root).

sudo make install

To uninstall tprogbar, just run:

sudo make uninstall

tprogbar can create help you to create simple ASCII progress bar with the options listed bellow:

• -v <value>: informs the value to be displayed on progress bar;
• -l <value>: sets the lowest value (default: 0);
• -g <value>: sets the greates value (default: 100);
• -s <step>: sets the step value of the progress bar (default: 5);
• -b <string>: string format of the bar - should contain %s and no spaces between characters (default [%s]);
• -p <char>: sets the progress character (avoid "*");
• -m char: sets the mask character of the progress bar (avoid "*").

It can be used with xsetroot to display your volume and screen brightness as a status bar notification.

# Audio volume at 50%
$ xsetroot -name "audio: $(tprogbar -v 50)"

An example using every option listed above:

• Sets the lowest value to 50;
• Sets the highest value to 900;
• Sets the value to 90;
• Change string format to "{ %s }";
• Change mask character to "="
• Change progress character to "+"

$ tprogbar -v 90 -l 50 -g 900 -s 50 -b "{ %s }" -p "+" -m "="
{ +================ }

Edimar Calebe Castanho (Calebe94)	Gabriel Gaboardi (Gabo)

All software is covered under GNU General Public License v3.0.