diff --git a/config.def.h b/config.def.h
index 557d492..62bb956 100644
--- a/config.def.h
+++ b/config.def.h
@@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ static const Layout layouts[] = {
 /* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
 #define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
 
+#define STATUSBAR "dwmblocks"
+
 /* commands */
 #define TERM_CMD "wezterm"
 #define TERM(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ TERM_CMD, cmd, NULL } }
@@ -233,7 +235,9 @@ static const Button buttons[] = {
 	{ ClkLtSymbol,          0,              Button1,        setlayout,      {0} },
 	{ ClkLtSymbol,          0,              Button3,        setlayout,      {.v = &layouts[2]} },
 	{ ClkWinTitle,          0,              Button2,        zoom,           {0} },
-	{ ClkStatusText,        0,              Button2,        spawn,          {.v = termcmd } },
+	{ ClkStatusText,        0,              Button1,        sigstatusbar,   {.i = 1} },
+	{ ClkStatusText,        0,              Button2,        sigstatusbar,   {.i = 2} },
+	{ ClkStatusText,        0,              Button3,        sigstatusbar,   {.i = 3} },
 	{ ClkClientWin,         MODKEY,         Button1,        movemouse,      {0} },
 	{ ClkClientWin,         MODKEY,         Button2,        togglefloating, {0} },
 	{ ClkClientWin,         MODKEY,         Button3,        resizemouse,    {0} },
diff --git a/dwm.c b/dwm.c
index ccbdbc7..18f7b3b 100644
--- a/dwm.c
+++ b/dwm.c
@@ -217,6 +217,7 @@ static void focusstack(const Arg *arg);
 static Atom getatomprop(Client *c, Atom prop);
 static int getrootptr(int *x, int *y);
 static long getstate(Window w);
+static pid_t getstatusbarpid();
 static unsigned int getsystraywidth();
 static int gettextprop(Window w, Atom atom, char *text, unsigned int size);
 static void grabbuttons(Client *c, int focused);
@@ -259,6 +260,7 @@ static void setmfact(const Arg *arg);
 static void setup(void);
 static void seturgent(Client *c, int urg);
 static void showhide(Client *c);
+static void sigstatusbar(const Arg *arg);
 static void spawn(const Arg *arg);
 static Monitor *systraytomon(Monitor *m);
 static void tag(const Arg *arg);
@@ -308,6 +310,9 @@ static Systray *systray = NULL;
 static unsigned long systrayorientation = _NET_SYSTEM_TRAY_ORIENTATION_HORZ;
 static const char broken[] = "broken";
 static char stext[1024];
+static int statussig;
+static int statusw;
+static pid_t statuspid = -1;
 static int screen;
 static int sw, sh;           /* X display screen geometry width, height */
 static int bh;               /* bar height */
@@ -564,9 +569,33 @@ buttonpress(XEvent *e)
 			arg.ui = 1 << i;
 		} else if (ev->x < x + TEXTW(selmon->ltsymbol, 0))
 			click = ClkLtSymbol;
-		else if (ev->x > selmon->ww - TEXTW(stext, 0) - getsystraywidth())
+		else if (ev->x > selmon->ww - statusw - getsystraywidth()) {
+			x = selmon->ww - statusw;
 			click = ClkStatusText;
-		else
+			char *text, *s, ch;
+			statussig = 0;
+			for (text = s = stext; *s && x <= ev->x; s++) {
+				if ((unsigned char)(*s) < ' ') {
+					ch = *s;
+					*s = '\0';
+					x += TEXTW(text, statusfontindex) - lrpad;
+					*s = ch;
+					text = s + 1;
+					if (x >= ev->x)
+						break;
+					statussig = ch;
+				} else if (*s == '^') {
+					*s = '\0';
+					x += TEXTW(text, statusfontindex) - lrpad;
+					*s = '^';
+					if (*(++s) == 'f')
+						x += atoi(++s);
+					while (*(s++) != '^');
+					text = s;
+					s--;
+				}
+			}
+		} else
 			click = ClkWinTitle;
 	} else if ((c = wintoclient(ev->window))) {
 		focus(c);
@@ -914,7 +943,7 @@ dirtomon(int dir)
 
 int
 drawstatusbar(Monitor *m, int bh, char* stext) {
-	int ret, i, w, x, len;
+	int ret, i, j, w, x, len;
 	short isCode = 0;
 	char *text;
 	char *p;
@@ -923,7 +952,12 @@ drawstatusbar(Monitor *m, int bh, char* stext) {
 	if (!(text = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char)*len)))
 		die("malloc");
 	p = text;
-	memcpy(text, stext, len);
+
+	i = -1, j = 0;
+	while (stext[++i])
+		if ((unsigned char)stext[i] >= ' ')
+			text[j++] = stext[i];
+	text[j] = '\0';
 
 	/* compute width of the status text */
 	w = 0;
@@ -1040,7 +1074,8 @@ drawbar(Monitor *m)
 		// drw_setscheme(drw, scheme[SchemeNorm]);
 		// tw = TEXTW(stext, statusfontindex) - lrpad + 2; /* 2px right padding */
 		// drw_text(drw, m->ww - tw - stw, 0, tw, bh, 0, stext, 0, statusfontindex);
-		tw = m->ww - drawstatusbar(m, bh, stext);
+		// tw = m->ww - drawstatusbar(m, bh, stext);
+		tw = statusw = m->ww - drawstatusbar(m, bh, stext);
 	}
 
 	resizebarwin(m);
@@ -1287,6 +1322,30 @@ getatomprop(Client *c, Atom prop)
 	return atom;
 }
 
+pid_t
+getstatusbarpid()
+{
+	char buf[32], *str = buf, *c;
+	FILE *fp;
+
+	if (statuspid > 0) {
+		snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "/proc/%u/cmdline", statuspid);
+		if ((fp = fopen(buf, "r"))) {
+			fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp);
+			while ((c = strchr(str, '/')))
+				str = c + 1;
+			fclose(fp);
+			if (!strcmp(str, STATUSBAR))
+				return statuspid;
+		}
+	}
+	if (!(fp = popen("pidof -s "STATUSBAR, "r")))
+		return -1;
+	fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fp);
+	pclose(fp);
+	return strtoul(buf, NULL, 10);
+}
+
 int
 getrootptr(int *x, int *y)
 {
@@ -2458,6 +2517,20 @@ showhide(Client *c)
 	}
 }
 
+void
+sigstatusbar(const Arg *arg)
+{
+	union sigval sv;
+
+	if (!statussig)
+		return;
+	sv.sival_int = arg->i;
+	if ((statuspid = getstatusbarpid()) <= 0)
+		return;
+
+	sigqueue(statuspid, SIGRTMIN+statussig, sv);
+}
+
 void
 spawn(const Arg *arg)
 {