i3status-rust

i3status-rs is a feature-rich and resource-friendly replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust. It provides a way to display "blocks" of system information (time, battery status, volume, etc) on bars that support the i3bar protocol.

Getting Started

Install from one of the packages below:

• For Fedora/CentOS, you can install from the COPR.

• For NixOS, you can also use Home Manager: programs.i3status-rust.enable = true see available options

Otherwise refer to manual install docs

Configuration

After installing i3status-rust, edit the example configuration to your liking. The default location is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/i3status-rust/config.toml.

There are some optional top-level configuration variables:

Key	Description	Default
icons	The icon set that should be used.	"none"
icons_format	A string to customise the appearance of each icon. Can be used to edit icons' spacing or specify a font that will be applied only to icons via pango markup. For example, " <span font_family='NotoSans Nerd Font'>{icon}</span> ".	" {icon} "
theme	The theme that should be used.	"plain"
scrolling	The direction of scrolling, either natural or reverse.	"reverse"
block	All blocks that will exist in your bar.	none

Documentation	Latest release (v0.22)	Git master (v0.30)
Blocks	click	click
Formatting	click	click
Themes and Icons	click	click

Integrate it into i3/sway

Next, edit your bar configuration to use i3status-rust. For example:

bar {
    font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono, FontAwesome 12
    position top
    status_command path/to/i3status-rs path/to/your/config.toml
    colors {
        separator #666666
        background #222222
        statusline #dddddd
        focused_workspace #0088CC #0088CC #ffffff
        active_workspace #333333 #333333 #ffffff
        inactive_workspace #333333 #333333 #888888
        urgent_workspace #2f343a #900000 #ffffff
    }
}

In order to use the built-in support for the Font Awesome icon set, you will need to include it in the font parameter, as above. Check to make sure that "FontAwesome" will correctly identify the font by using fc-match, e.g.

$ fc-match FontAwesome
fontawesome-webfont.ttf: "FontAwesome" "Regular"

Note that the name of the Font Awesome font may have changed in version 5.
You can use fc-list to see the names of your available Awesome Fonts.

$ fc-list | grep -i awesome
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-solid-900.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Solid:style=Solid
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/fa-regular-400.ttf: Font Awesome 5 Free,Font Awesome 5 Free Regular:style=Regular

In this example, you have to use Font Awesome 5 Free instead of the FontAwesome 12 in the example configuration above. You can verify the name again using fc-match

See #130 for further discussion.

Finally, reload i3: i3 reload.

Signalling

i3bar has a "power savings" feature that pauses the bar via SIGSTOP when it is hidden or obscured by a fullscreen container. If this causes issues with your bar, try running i3status-rs with the --never-stop argument, which changes the signal sent by i3 from SIGSTOP to SIGCONT.

i3status-rs can be signalled to force an update of all blocks by sending it the SIGUSR1 signal.

i3status-rs can also be restarted in place (useful for testing changes to the config file) by sending it the SIGUSR2 signal.

Debugging

Run i3status-rust in a terminal to check the JSON it is outputting.
In addition, some blocks have debug logs that can be enabled like so: RUST_LOG=block=debug i3status-rs where "block" is the block name.

Contributing

We welcome new contributors! Take a gander at CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3. See the LICENSE.md file for details.