5 i3status is a small program for generating a status bar for i3bar, dzen2, xmobar
6 or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small
7 number of system calls, as one generally wants to update such a status line
8 every second. This ensures that even under high load, your status bar is updated
9 correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging your CPU as much as
10 spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.
14 i3status has the following dependencies:
19 * asciidoc (only for the documentation)
20 * libpulse-dev (for getting the current volume using PulseAudio)
22 On debian-based systems, the following line will install all requirements:
24 apt-get install libconfuse-dev libyajl-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev asciidoc libpulse-dev libnl-genl-3-dev
29 i3status is developed at https://github.com/i3/i3status
33 Compiling is done with the usual make-line
35 make && sudo make install