* Ciprian Dorin Craciun [2015-09-16 15:22:50 +0300]:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> > The recommended way is to wrap i3status as described in its manpage.
>
I'm using i3blocks without problems. Just give it a try, perhaps it'll
suit your needs.
--
Valentin Ru
If you don't mind using an alternative to i3status, i3pystatus us an
excellent project - https://github.com/enkore/i3pystatus. There are
many modules written for it including one for memory -
http://docs.enkore.de/i3pystatus/i3pystatus.html#i3pystatus.mem_bar.MemBar
Thanks,
Facetoe.
Ciprian Dorin Craciun 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 h
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
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 te
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Michael Stapelberg 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
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Michael Stapelberg 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
The recommended way is to wrap i3status as described in its manpage.
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Ciprian Dorin Craciun
wrote:
> I've just looked in the `i3status` manual to see how to display the
> free memory (as reported by `free`), and found no option.
>
> I understand from the manual tha
I've just looked in the `i3status` manual to see how to display the
free memory (as reported by `free`), and found no option.
I understand from the manual that computing the used memory is not
easy, but displaying the total used or free memory (both RAM and swap)
as reported by `free` is quite eas
