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10 i3bar is an xcb- and libev-based status- and workspace-bar. It is best
11 thought of as an replacement for the old <tt>i3-wsbar(1)</tt> +
12 <tt>dzen2(1)</tt>-combination. It creates a workspace-bar for every active
13 output ("screen") and displays a piped in statusline rightaligned on every
18 It does not sample any status-information itself, so you still need a program
19 like <tt>i3status(1)</tt> or <tt>conky(1)</tt> for that.
23 i3bar does not support any color or other markups, so stdin should be plain
24 utf8, one line at a time. If you use <tt>i3status(1)</tt>, you therefore
25 should specify 'output_format = none' in the general section of its config
33 <li><a href="/i3status/i3status-2.3.tar.bz2">i3status-2.3.tar.bz2</a>
34 (<a href="/i3status/i3status-2.3.tar.bz2.asc">GPG signature</a>, 2011-07-21)</li>
38 <h2>Documentation</h2>
41 The documentation for i3bar is its manpage. You can also <a
42 href="/i3bar/manpage.html">view the manpage online</a>.
48 i3bar is currently developed at <a href="http://git.merovius.de/i3bar" title="cgit">
49 http://git.merovius.de/i3bar</a>. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to
50 be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a