dzen

see dzen's site.

dbar

General purpose, semi graphical percentage meter/progressbar.

Features:

• Simple interface, perfect to use within your scripts
• Trivial to intergrate with dzen
• See sourcecode for description 

Requirements:

• C compiler

Download it.  

cpubar

Specialized dbar showing the CPU usage in % under Linux.

Features:

• Tiny, fast, simple
• Perfectly usable with dzen 
• See also dzen's script archive 

Requirements:

• Linux >=2.6
• C compiler

dwm-status.zsh

Generate statusbar contents for dwm or xmonad.

Features:

• Date/Time display
• Load average
• Mail notification
• Relying on zsh builtins

Requirements:

• Zsh

Download it.

nntp-stat

Facile usenet statistics tool

Features:

• Displays the commones of each newsreader in distinct postings
• Top ten posters with article count, detailing new topics and replies

Requirements:

• perl
• Net::NNTP

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dmenu-history

Fully keyboard controlled X menu, originally developed by Anselm R. Garbe (software that sucks less)

Added feature:

• History (specifiy the history file with the '-hist <filename>' command line switch)

Requieremenst:

• C compiler
• Xlib

Download it.

Download patch.

slock

Simple screen locker, originally developed by Anselm R. Garbe (software that sucks less)

Added features:

• Display some text to visualize that slock is running
• Echo back input characters like in other common passwort entry fields

Requieremenst:

• C compiler
• Xlib

Download it.