This is a build/configuration of dwmblocks-async. Vanilla dwmblocks runs blocks sequentially, which means if one block freezes or simply takes a long time to load (for example, a weather block trying to pull from the internet when you don't have connection), all subsequent blocks have to wait on it.

Installation

git clone https://git.mjwilson.org/mike/dwmblocks-async.git
cd dwmblocks-async
sudo make clean install

Usage

Add dwmblocks (the binary is still called dwmblocks, not dwmblocks-async) to your ~/.xinitrc to run in the background at login/startup:

dwmblocks &
exec dwm