i3blocks VS i3status-rust

Another tool you can consider is i3blocks, which really is just a light layer on top of the default i3bar but uses a more readable config format.

But there is one issue background must wait for dunstify notifcation to finish (explained here in different context https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks/issues/354). This mean I can't take another screenshot until I dismiss/click this notification.

You can use the default swaybar with i3blocks as the status_command. i3blocks can receive signals.

From https://vivien.github.io/i3blocks/

You can think of yablocks as somewhere in between writing your own status generator manually using the i3bar json protocol and using i3blocks. You'll be generating the JSON output yourself, but with help from a fully featured templating engine and structured data.

within your i3blocks config. This solution doesn't always work, especially in firefox, and is prone to hanging. Even using :

I use i3blocks and write all the scripts myself, these examples can be a good starting point.

https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks.git https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks-contrib.git

https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks#click

You might check out https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks instead of i3status.

If you want icons and clickable items on the bar you need to use something like https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust

https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust/tree/master/examples is about twice as good. The way i3blocks handles clicks is quite frankly kind of crap.

I assume you have installed latest stable version which is 0.22. The relavant config is https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust/blob/v0.22.0/examples/config.toml

What's the version of i3-status you are using. As per their README, https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust , there are two versions 0.22 and 0.3. Make sure you are using compatible versions according to your config.

Yeah, much better than the default i3status, it is well documented, you can check its screenshots and documents for more into. https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust/blob/master/doc/themes.md

Setup is a Clevo laptop with an eGPU and 3 external monitors, running i3wm with i3status-rust. Keyboard is an Ergodone (chinese knockoff of ZSA's Ergodox EZ) with MX Browns and caps are a white and green set from AliExpress, that was basically the only DSA blank set for this keyboard I could find that would also have homing notches.