i3status is a small program for generating a status bar for i3bar, dzen2, xmobar, or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small number of system calls, as one generally wants to update such a status line every second. This ensures that even under high load, your status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.
- Configurable display of the currently playing MPD track
- Notifications of MPD track changes using libnotify
- Notifications of battery state change and critical level with libnotify
Currently there is no official package for this fork of i3status, so you'll have to compile it yourself. Fortunately that's pretty easy - just clone the repository and run the following:
make && sudo make install
i3status has the following dependencies:
- libconfuse-dev
- libyajl-dev
- libasound2-dev
- libiw-dev
- libnotify
- libmpdclient
- libcap2-bin (for getting network status without root permissions)
- asciidoc (only for the documentation)