Barista is an i3 status bar written in golang.
This is not an official Google product
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Based on push rather than fixed interval polling. Currently only media and volume benefit from this, but this opens the door to async updates from shell scripts, irc, &c.
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Produces a single binary via go build. This makes it easy to set up the bar executable, since no import paths, environment variables, et al. need to be configured.
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Good click handlers (especially media and volume), since we can wait for a command and update the bar immediately rather than waiting for the next 'tick'.
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Configuration is code, providing oodles of customization options without needing myriad configuration options in a file somewhere. If/then/else, loops, functions, variables, and even other go packages can all be used seamlessly.
See samples/sample-bar.go for a sample bar.
To build your own bar, simply create a package main go file,
import and configure the modules you wish to use, and call barista/bar.Run(...).
To show your bar in i3, set the status_command of a bar { ... } section
to be the newly built bar binary, e.g.
bar {
position top
status_command ~/bin/mybar
font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 10
}
See the wiki for more details