https://github.com/i3/i3status

Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar
https://github.com/i3/i3status

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Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/i3/i3status
• Owner: i3
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2014-12-26T20:04:55.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-09-09T14:43:25.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-13T18:04:10.200Z (9 days ago)
• Language: C
• Size: 975 KB
• Stars: 608
• Watchers: 22
• Forks: 256
• Open Issues: 84
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# i3status

## Description

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.

## Development

i3status has the following dependencies:

  * libconfuse-dev

  * libyajl-dev

  * libasound2-dev

  * libnl-genl-3-dev

  * meson (compile-time only dependency)

  * 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:

```bash

apt-get install autoconf libconfuse-dev libyajl-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev asciidoc libpulse-dev libnl-genl-3-dev meson

```

## Upstream

i3status is developed at https://github.com/i3/i3status

## Compilation

Prefer installing i3status via your Linux distribution’s package manager.

If you absolutely have to build from source, use:

```bash

  mkdir build

  cd build

  meson ..

  ninja

  sudo ninja install

```