Ciprian Dorin Craciun <ciprian.crac...@gmail.com> writes: > 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...
Just in case you are using i3bar in hide mode: In that case i3bar will SIGSTOP i3status anyway, when the bar isn't shown, so this won't be a huge problem. :) If you use it in docked mode of course, you are kind of out of luck with this.
