From: Michael Stapelberg Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:59:32 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs/userguide: refer to the new i3bar options in "8.1. Displaying a status line" X-Git-Tag: 4.2~164 X-Git-Url: https://git.sur5r.net/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9a46335e255693382d894b0f3ba98a8c0b4068d5;p=i3%2Fi3 docs/userguide: refer to the new i3bar options in "8.1. Displaying a status line" --- diff --git a/docs/userguide b/docs/userguide index 7145442d..5a0e8f8a 100644 --- a/docs/userguide +++ b/docs/userguide @@ -821,6 +821,7 @@ bar { } ------------------------------------------------- +[[status_command]] === Statusline command i3bar can run a program and display every line of its +stdout+ output on the @@ -866,6 +867,7 @@ bar { } ---------------- +[[i3bar_position]] === Position This option determines in which edge of the screen i3bar should show up. @@ -1611,14 +1613,13 @@ If you don’t already have your favorite way of generating such a status line this task. It was written in C with the goal of using as few syscalls as possible to reduce the time your CPU is woken up from sleep states. Because i3status only spits out text, you need to combine it with some other tool, like -i3bar. Use a pipe to connect them: +i3status | i3bar -d+. +i3bar. See <> for how to display i3status in i3bar. Regardless of which application you use to display the status line, you want to make sure that it registers as a dock window using EWMH hints. i3 will position the window either at the top or at the bottom of the screen, depending -on which hint the application sets. With i3bar, you can use +-d+ or +-dbottom+ -for positioning it at the bottom and +-dtop+ to position it at the top of the -screen. +on which hint the application sets. With i3bar, you can configure its position, +see <>. === Giving presentations (multi-monitor)