Almost completely asynchronous - the main thread sleeps indefinitely and updates UI only when necessary.
User can emit the SIGUSR1 signal or use one of the predefined modules implementing synchronization.
The following modules were modified:
- Print disk info
- Current volume - added support for progress bar
The following modules were added:
- LCD brightness
- Network connection with priorities and colors (Ethernet > WiFi > Loopback)
- Current keyboard layout module - pwld daemon
Added support for one more color used when audio is muted.
Please note this implementation is done for my purposes and may not (certainly is not) be portable. Even building this fork may require some changes.
Added new dependencies:
-lX11-lboost_filesystem-lboost_system
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.
i3status has the following dependencies:
- libconfuse-dev
- libyajl-dev
- libasound2-dev
- libnl-genl-3-dev
- libcap2-bin (for getting network status without root permissions)
- asciidoc (only for the documentation)
- libpulse-dev (for getting the current volume using PulseAudio)
On debian-based systems, the following line will install all requirements:
apt-get install libconfuse-dev libyajl-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev asciidoc libcap2-bin libpulse-dev libnl-genl-3-devi3status is developed at https://github.com/i3/i3status
Compiling is done with the usual make-line
make && sudo make install