5 i3status is a small program (about 1500 SLOC) for generating a status bar for
6 i3bar, dzen2, xmobar or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by
7 issuing a very small number of system calls, as one generally wants to update
8 such a status line every second. This ensures that even under high load, your
9 status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging
10 your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.
14 i3status has the following dependencies:
19 * libcap2-bin (for getting network status without root permissions)
20 * asciidoc (only for the documentation)
21 * libpulse-dev (for getting the current volume using PulseAudio)
23 On debian-based systems, the following line will install all requirements:
25 apt-get install libconfuse-dev libyajl-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev asciidoc libcap2-bin libpulse-dev libnl-genl-3-dev
30 i3status is developed at https://github.com/i3/i3status
34 Compiling is done with the usual make-line
36 make && sudo make install