squirrel-bar

another hard coded i3-bar rendered with SDL2.

on this screenshot you can see following things:

• workspaces
• the current network obtained with nmcli and ip
• the current time hour:minute:second
• the number of processes in runnable state (see man pages for proc (/proc/stat > procs_running))
• the processor usage of each logical CPU
• the processor usage of the system plotted
• the current battery energy in percent
• a heart icon which indicates if the battery is charging, discharging or full

1. Install

1.1 Clone Repository

git clone https://github.com/NatrixAeria/squirrel-bar

1.2 Build it

To compile the project make sure you have installed:

• SDL2
• SLD2-ttf
• NetworkManager (networkmanager)

1.2.1 With build script

just type: sh build. The build script compiles and runs the code automatically.

1.2.2 Manually

compile it with gcc: g++ -o sqbar *.cpp -L/usr/lib -pthread -lSDL2 -lSDL2_ttf -L/usr/X11/lib -lX11 -lstdc++ -std=c++17

2. Add it to your configs

edit your i3 config ( etc/i3/config or ~/.i3/config or ~/.config/i3/config ):

...
bar {
    ...
    i3bar_command path/to/squirrel-bar/sqbar
    ...
}
...

and save the file.

3. Reload i3

reload i3 with i3 reload