diff --git a/KEEP/i3status.patch b/KEEP/i3status.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7e480eeb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/KEEP/i3status.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
+ CFLAGS+=-Iinclude
+ LIBS+=-lconfuse
+ LIBS+=-lyajl
+-LIBS+=-lpulse
+ LIBS+=-lm
+ LIBS+=-lpthread
+ 
+@@ -79,10 +78,8 @@
+ OBJS:=$(sort $(wildcard src/*.c *.c))
+ OBJS:=$(OBJS:.c=.o)
+ 
+-ifeq ($(OS),OpenBSD)
+ OBJS:=$(filter-out src/pulse.o, $(OBJS))
+ LIBS:=$(filter-out -lpulse, $(LIBS))
+-endif
+ 
+ src/%.o: src/%.c include/i3status.h
+ 	$(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
+Only in b: i3status
+--- a/src/print_volume.c
++++ b/src/print_volume.c
+@@ -61,53 +61,6 @@
+         free(instance);
+     }
+ 
+-#ifndef __OpenBSD__
+-    /* Try PulseAudio first */
+-
+-    /* If the device name has the format "pulse[:N]" where N is the
+-     * index of the PulseAudio sink then force PulseAudio, optionally
+-     * overriding the default sink */
+-    if (!strncasecmp(device, "pulse", strlen("pulse"))) {
+-        uint32_t sink_idx = device[strlen("pulse")] == ':' ? (uint32_t)atoi(device + strlen("pulse:")) : DEFAULT_SINK_INDEX;
+-        const char *sink_name = device[strlen("pulse")] == ':' &&
+-                                        !isdigit(device[strlen("pulse:")])
+-                                    ? device + strlen("pulse:")
+-                                    : NULL;
+-        int cvolume = pulse_initialize() ? volume_pulseaudio(sink_idx, sink_name) : 0;
+-        int ivolume = DECOMPOSE_VOLUME(cvolume);
+-        bool muted = DECOMPOSE_MUTED(cvolume);
+-        if (muted) {
+-            START_COLOR("color_degraded");
+-            pbval = 0;
+-        }
+-        /* negative result means error, stick to 0 */
+-        if (ivolume < 0)
+-            ivolume = 0;
+-        outwalk = apply_volume_format(muted ? fmt_muted : fmt,
+-                                      outwalk,
+-                                      ivolume);
+-        goto out;
+-    } else if (!strcasecmp(device, "default") && pulse_initialize()) {
+-        /* no device specified or "default" set */
+-        int cvolume = volume_pulseaudio(DEFAULT_SINK_INDEX, NULL);
+-        int ivolume = DECOMPOSE_VOLUME(cvolume);
+-        bool muted = DECOMPOSE_MUTED(cvolume);
+-        if (ivolume >= 0) {
+-            if (muted) {
+-                START_COLOR("color_degraded");
+-                pbval = 0;
+-            }
+-            outwalk = apply_volume_format(muted ? fmt_muted : fmt,
+-                                          outwalk,
+-                                          ivolume);
+-            goto out;
+-        }
+-        /* negative result means error, fail PulseAudio attempt */
+-    }
+-/* If some other device was specified or PulseAudio is not detected,
+- * proceed to ALSA / OSS */
+-#endif
+-
+ #ifdef LINUX
+     int err;
+     snd_mixer_t *m;
diff --git a/pkg/i3-wm b/pkg/i3-wm
index 750f957cf..ab46391bb 100644
--- a/pkg/i3-wm
+++ b/pkg/i3-wm
@@ -7,15 +7,29 @@ sha512=1bb1044e8d86e78d3ccb79d49f0eb26665dcd05a348058a5e57138151d74f57d77830efc3
 pkgver=2
 
 [deps]
+dmenu
+i3status
 libev
 libyajl
 libxcb
 xcb-util-keysyms
 xcb-util-cursor
 xcb-util-wm
+xcb-util-xrm
+xkbcommon
 pcre
 libstartup-notification
 
 [build]
-CPPFLAGS="-DGLOB_TILDE=0" make -j $MAKE_THREADS
+[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && \
+  xconfflags="--host=$($CC -dumpmachine) \
+  --with-sysroot=$butch_root_dir"
+
+CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -DGLOB_TILDE=0" CFLAGS="$optcflags" CXXFLAGS="$optcflags" \
+LDFLAGS="$optldflags -Wl,-rpath-link=$butch_root_dir$butch_prefix/lib" \
+  ./configure -C --prefix="$butch_prefix" $xconfflags
+
+#[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && "$K"/libtool.cross.gen --sysroot="$butch_root_dir"
+cd "$A"-pc-linux-gnu
+CPPFLAGS="-DGLOB_TILDE=0" make V=1 -j$MAKE_THREADS
 make DESTDIR="$butch_install_dir" install
diff --git a/pkg/i3status b/pkg/i3status
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..064b401d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/i3status
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+[mirrors]
+https://i3wm.org/i3status/i3status-2.11.tar.bz2
+
+[vars]
+filesize=54970
+sha512=37d2549649178122fab7411a3c714ae041d9c726c140002ec6ccd1a4f2e28af618ca28af9aa3bc45d0cafda0b25dd438c9ed4c3739ddcc0511e19305657730f0
+pkgver=1
+
+[deps]
+libconfuse
+libnl
+libyajl
+libcap2
+alsa-lib
+
+[build]
+patch -p1 < "$K"/i3status.patch
+dest="$butch_install_dir""$butch_prefix"
+CPPFLAGS="-DGLOB_TILDE=0" make
+PREFIX="$dest" make install
diff --git a/pkg/libconfuse b/pkg/libconfuse
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d63d7e2f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/libconfuse
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[mirrors]
+https://github.com/martinh/libconfuse/releases/download/v3.0/confuse-3.0.tar.gz
+
+[vars]
+filesize=725452
+sha512=0bcedd2c54767dc9c4cb9ccf20557d49fa6c5e33f78e01412ff3daa7dcd2b94c9368552c2533aabfc0ce9e65683ca37986540167f40d71e5adacf4485a683e05
+pkgver=1
+
+[build]
+[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && \
+  xconfflags="--host=$($CC -dumpmachine) \
+  --with-sysroot=$butch_root_dir"
+
+CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" CFLAGS="$optcflags" CXXFLAGS="$optcflags" \
+LDFLAGS="$optldflags -Wl,-rpath-link=$butch_root_dir$butch_prefix/lib" \
+  ./configure -C --prefix="$butch_prefix" --disable-nls $xconfflags
+
+#[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && "$K"/libtool.cross.gen --sysroot="$butch_root_dir"
+
+make V=1 -j$MAKE_THREADS
+make DESTDIR="$butch_install_dir" install
diff --git a/pkg/libnl b/pkg/libnl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b83ff71c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/libnl
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[mirrors]
+https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-3.2.25.tar.gz
+
+[vars]
+filesize=832513
+sha512=3f9649577e9282cf41d2d4894aaecb2d53b4a1c51f9e674a6fb73393e9482f9f45e6f0ffa5815e606f972916e369774bfd85141a96c0e3d9d4ead3adea796286
+pkgver=1
+
+[build]
+[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && \
+  xconfflags="--host=$($CC -dumpmachine) \
+  --with-sysroot=$butch_root_dir"
+
+CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" CFLAGS="$optcflags" CXXFLAGS="$optcflags" \
+LDFLAGS="$optldflags -Wl,-rpath-link=$butch_root_dir$butch_prefix/lib" \
+  ./configure -C --prefix="$butch_prefix" --disable-nls $xconfflags
+
+#[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && "$K"/libtool.cross.gen --sysroot="$butch_root_dir"
+
+make V=1 -j$MAKE_THREADS
+make DESTDIR="$butch_install_dir" install
diff --git a/pkg/xcb-util-xrm b/pkg/xcb-util-xrm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ad01c5525
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/xcb-util-xrm
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[mirrors]
+https://github.com/Airblader/xcb-util-xrm/releases/download/v1.2/xcb-util-xrm-1.2.tar.bz2
+
+[vars]
+filesize=324708
+sha512=c6031844d3a197b234cb1b22166c02fe8d03f8a8def836b8c974324a0b6b453889680011406c7940bd04fde1389c5a2ff508f84b080f811ca69cbdb0334994e8
+pkgver=1
+
+[deps]
+queue-h
+
+[build]
+[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && \
+  xconfflags="--host=$($CC -dumpmachine) \
+  --with-sysroot=$butch_root_dir"
+
+CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" CFLAGS="$optcflags" CXXFLAGS="$optcflags" \
+LDFLAGS="$optldflags -Wl,-rpath-link=$butch_root_dir$butch_prefix/lib" \
+  ./configure -C --prefix="$butch_prefix" $xconfflags
+
+#[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && "$K"/libtool.cross.gen --sysroot="$butch_root_dir"
+
+make V=1 -j$MAKE_THREADS
+make DESTDIR="$butch_install_dir" install
diff --git a/pkg/xkbcommon b/pkg/xkbcommon
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5d1c824f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/xkbcommon
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+[mirrors]
+http://xkbcommon.org/download/libxkbcommon-0.7.1.tar.xz
+
+[vars]
+filesize=622384
+sha512=9f209214d5d7f9334cabb2cd7e0d9b9b0392c1fae06b60e92a03398875399fe48754b543389f78b8b06dd28a86dfd440720e534bae309ca8ef882eb874dce4e1
+pkgver=1
+
+[build]
+[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && \
+  xconfflags="--host=$($CC -dumpmachine) \
+  --with-sysroot=$butch_root_dir"
+
+CPPFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE" CFLAGS="$optcflags" CXXFLAGS="$optcflags" \
+LDFLAGS="$optldflags -Wl,-rpath-link=$butch_root_dir$butch_prefix/lib" \
+  ./configure -C --prefix="$butch_prefix" --disable-nls $xconfflags
+
+#[ -n "$CROSS_COMPILE" ] && "$K"/libtool.cross.gen --sysroot="$butch_root_dir"
+
+make V=1 -j$MAKE_THREADS
+make DESTDIR="$butch_install_dir" install