About
Dzen is a general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11. It was designed to be scriptable in any language and integrate well with window managers like dwm, wmii and xmonad though it will work with any windowmanger.
Features
- Small, fast, very tiny set of dependencies (Xlib only by default)
- Scriptable in any language
- Sophisticated formating language - including colours, icons, graphics
- Versatile - display all sorts of information
- Interactive - user defined mouse and keyboard actions
- Optional XFT support
- Optional XINERAMA support
Documentation
The basic documentation ressource is dzen's README file
For more andvanced topics and ready to use scripts be sure to have a look at the Dzen Wiki.
The wiki also holds a lot of information on the development version and documents the usage of bleeding edge features that did not make it into the README, yet.
Community & Contact
Bug reports, patches and feature request can be sent to: rob dot manea at gmail dot com
Usually I'm hanging around in these IRC channels:
Server irc.oftc.net : #dzen #dwm
Server irc.freenode.org: #xmonad