i3status

Utility to generate status bar data to be used by i3 window manager bar (known as i3bar).

Serves as a replacement for i3status.

Implements i3bar protocol.

Written in Rust as educational project for personal use only.

Check greshake/i3status-rust for full featured i3status implementation written in Rust.

Runtime Dependencies

• Linux
• mounted sysfs filesystem
• iwconfig, iwgetid (wireless-tools package)
• ip (iproute2 package)
• xkblayout-state (xkblayout-state-git package)
• amixer (alsa-utils package)
• sed (sed package)
• awk (awk package)

Usage

Install Rust to build binary.

Clone this repository, build and install binary:

$ git clone https://github.com/ysegorov/i3status-rs
$ cd i3status-rs
$ cargo install --path .

Binary named i3status will be installed to $CARGO_HOME/bin directory ($CARGO_HOME defaults to ~/.cargo).

Configure i3bar within ~/.config/i3/status configuration file:

...
bar {
    status_command ~/.cargo/bin/i3status
    font pango:Hack Nerd Font 9
}
...

and reload i3wm configuration or simply restart i3wm.

License

Unlicense.