i3status is a small program (less than 1000 SLOC) for generating a status bar for dzen2, xmobar or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small number of systemcalls, as one generally wants to update such a status line every second. This ensures that even under high load, your status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.
i3status is currently developed at http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3status. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.
Contact us at irc://irc.twice-irc.de/i3 (or, #i3 on irc.twice-irc.de, for those without proper URL handling setup). Feel free to ask questions, please don’t ask to ask and please think before you ask :-).
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