Re: [i3] How to display in `i3bar` (via `i3status`) the amount of free memory

2015-09-17 Thread Valentin Rusu
* 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,

Re: [i3] How to display in `i3bar` (via `i3status`) the amount of free memory

2015-09-16 Thread Jeff Jibson
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

Re: [i3] How to display in `i3bar` (via `i3status`) the amount of free memory

2015-09-16 Thread Michael Stapelberg
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

Re: [i3] How to display in `i3bar` (via `i3status`) the amount of free memory

2015-09-16 Thread Axel Wagner
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