On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun <
ciprian.crac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Michael Stapelberg <mich...@i3wm.org>
wrote:
> > The recommended way is to wrap i3status as described in its manpage.
>
> The whole purpose of `i3status` is that it's lightweight both in terms
> of resources and OS calls. Wrapping it in a script that each second
> spawns a bunch of processes just to add memory usage is counter to its
> purpose...
>
> ...
>
> However I would like to ask the developers to please reconsider adding
> such a basic and useful piece of information. (But as said I'll live
> this here.)
>
> Thanks for i3,
> Ciprian.
There are several alternatives to i3status. I haven't had time to try any
of them. I have been using conky for years, so I use it.
In my config file I have:
bar {
output HDMI1
tray_output HDMI1
status_command conky -c ~/.i3/conkyrc.left
mode dock
position bottom
workspace_buttons yes
font $font
colors {
background $root
statusline $foreground
focused_workspace $foreground $focused $foreground
active_workspace $foreground $active $foreground
inactive_workspace $foreground $unfocused $foreground
urgent_workspace $urgentfg $urgentbg $urgentfg
}
}
I have two monitors. Both conky files have the following settings at the
top of the file:
background no
use_xft yes
out_to_console yes
out_to_x no
update_interval 2
total_run_times 0
double_buffer yes
border_inner_margin 0
border_outer_margin 0
use_spacer none
if_up_strictness address
short_units yes
In file for my left monitor I have:
TEXT
BKK ${tztime UTC-7 %T} \
CCSD ${tztime PST8PDT %T} \
PT-0{1,2,3} ${tztime MST7MDT %T} | \
en01 ${addr eno1} ${downspeed eno1} ${upspeed eno1} \
${if_up tun0} tun0 ${addr tun0} ${downspeed tun0} ${upspeed tun0}
${endif} \
port ${tcp_portmon 1 65535 count} | \
$nodename ($kernel) $uptime \
${time %F %T}
In the file for the right monitor I have:
TEXT
CLP $cpu=${cpu cpu0}+${cpu cpu1} \
$loadavg \
$running_processes / $processes | \
MS $mem/$memmax ($memperc%) \
$swap/$swapmax ($swapperc%) | \
D / ${fs_used /}/${fs_size /} | \
G ${execi 50 if pgrep sandbox > /dev/null ; then genlop -cn | grep
'Currently merging' ; else echo -n Las Sync: ; ~/.i3/lastsync.sh ; fi}
| \
HKUT $nodename ($kernel) $uptime \
${time %T}
Some of this is specific to gentoo and needs gentools.
