X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fi3status.man;h=777cb3830979fbf9ed26125ed1eeacbab6199ff8;hb=abd1c58d7e95155da1d8d8487516662add2efe95;hp=42d2e33fc765ecbab0df5edece5f44e9d7e5e7a5;hpb=28ba2ae8920ed5a020d51d51ee75dd8899aa0df1;p=i3%2Fi3status diff --git a/man/i3status.man b/man/i3status.man index 42d2e33..777cb38 100644 --- a/man/i3status.man +++ b/man/i3status.man @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ i3status(1) =========== Michael Stapelberg -v2.1, April 2010 +v2.2, September 2010 == NAME @@ -9,13 +9,18 @@ i3status - Generates a status line for dzen2 or xmobar == SYNOPSIS -i3status [-c configfile] +i3status [-c configfile] [-h] [-v] == OPTIONS -c:: -Specifies an alternate configuration file path (default is /etc/i3status.conf -or ~/.i3status.conf). +Specifies an alternate configuration file path. By default, i3status looks for +configuration files in the following order: + +1. ~/.i3status/config +2. ~/.config/i3status/config (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/i3status/config if set) +3. /etc/i3status/config +4. /etc/xdg/i3status/config (or $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/i3status/config if set) == DESCRIPTION @@ -57,13 +62,14 @@ order += "load" order += "time" wireless wlan0 { - format_up = "W: (%quality at %essid) %ip" + format_up = "W: (%quality at %essid, %bitrate) %ip" format_down = "W: down" } ethernet eth0 { # if you use %speed, i3status requires the cap_net_admin capability - format = "E: %ip (%speed)" + format_up = "E: %ip (%speed)" + format_down = "E: down" } battery 0 { @@ -88,6 +94,7 @@ load { cpu_temperature 0 { format = "T: %degrees °C" + path = "/sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/temp1_input" } disk "/" { @@ -97,9 +104,25 @@ disk "/" { === General -The colors directive will disable all colors if you set it to +false+. -+interval+ is the time in seconds which i3status will sleep until printing -the next status line. +The +colors+ directive will disable all colors if you set it to +false+. You can +also specify the colors that will be used to display "good", "degraded" or "bad" +values using the +color_good+, +color_degraded+ or +color_bad+ directives, +respectively. Those directives are only used if color support is not disabled by +the +colors+ directive. The input format for color values is the canonical RGB +hexadecimal triplet (with no separators between the colors), prefixed by a hash +character ("#"). + +*Example configuration*: +------------------------------------------------------------- +color_good = "#00FF00" +------------------------------------------------------------- + +Likewise, you can use the +color_separator+ directive to specify the color that +will be used to paint the separator bar. The separator is always output in +color, even when colors are disabled by the +colors+ directive. + +The +interval+ directive specifies the time in seconds for which i3status will +sleep before printing the next status line. Using +output_format+ you can chose which format strings i3status should use in its output. Currently available are: @@ -147,7 +170,7 @@ connected. *Example order*: +wireless wlan0+ -*Example format*: +W: (%quality at %essid) %ip+ +*Example format*: +W: (%quality at %essid, %bitrate) %ip+ === Ethernet @@ -180,6 +203,14 @@ Gets the temperature of the given thermal zone. *Example format*: +T: %degrees °C+ +=== CPU Usage + +Gets the percentual CPU usage from +/proc/stat+. + +*Example order*: +cpu_usage+ + +*Example format*: +%usage+ + === Load Gets the system load (number of processes waiting for CPU time in the last @@ -207,9 +238,29 @@ details on the format string. *Example format*: +%{%a, %b %d%}, %Y%N - %H+ +=== Volume + +Outputs the volume of the specified mixer on the specified device. Works only +on Linux because it uses ALSA. + +*Example order*: +volume master+ + +*Example format*: +♪: %volume+ + +*Example configuration*: +------------------------------------------------------------- +volume master { + format = "♪: %volume" + device = "default" + mixer = "Master" + mixer_idx = 0 +} +------------------------------------------------------------- + == Using i3status with dzen2 -After installing dzen2, you can directly use it with i3status: +After installing dzen2, you can directly use it with i3status. Just ensure that ++output_format+ is set to +dzen2+. *Example for usage of i3status with dzen2*: -------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -220,11 +271,12 @@ i3status | dzen2 -fg white -ta r -w 1280 \ == Using i3status with xmobar To get xmobar to start, you might need to copy the default configuration -file to +~/.xmobarrc+. +file to +~/.xmobarrc+. Also, ensure that the +output_format+ option for i3status +is set to +xmobar+. *Example for usage of i3status with xmobar*: --------------------------------------------------------------------- -i3status-xmobar | xmobar -o -t "%StdinReader%" -c "[Run StdinReader]" +i3status | xmobar -o -t "%StdinReader%" -c "[Run StdinReader]" --------------------------------------------------------------------- == SEE ALSO