i3bar

i3bar is an xcb- and libev-based status- and workspace-bar. It is best thought of as an replacement for the old i3-wsbar(1) + dzen2(1)-combination. It creates a workspace-bar for every active output ("screen") and displays a piped in statusline rightaligned on every bar.

It does not sample any status-information itself, so you still need a program like i3status(1) or conky(1) for that.

i3bar does not support any color or other markups, so stdin should be plain utf8, one line at a time. If you use i3status(1), you therefore should specify 'output_format = none' in the general section of its config file.

Documentation

The documentation for i3bar is its manpage. You can also view the manpage online.

Development

i3bar is currently developed at http://git.merovius.de/i3bar. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.