i3status-rust
Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust (by greshake)
i3blocks
The hacker-friendly status_command for Sway and i3 (by vivien)
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| i3status-rust | i3blocks | |
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| 29 | 14 | |
| 2,779 | 2,237 | |
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| 9.1 | 0.0 | |
| 3 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| Rust | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
i3status-rust
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3status-rust.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-19.
- How can I make my i3bar like this?
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Configuration of i3wm!!
If you want icons and clickable items on the bar you need to use something like https://github.com/greshake/i3status-rust
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i3blocks - cannot get custom block to work at all
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.
- I3status-Rust
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Unable to set icons in i3status-rust - unknown field 'icons'
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
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Upload and download speed for status bar
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.
- i3blocks vs Polybar
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I wrote an x11 tiling window manager inspired by DWM that I've been using for a few months now. If you're using x11 and want to try out a new tiling window manager I'd love your feedback!
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
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I really love Colemak, but I sadly rolled back to QWERTY because...
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.
- Whats your favourite i3 hacks you can't live without?
i3blocks
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3blocks.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-18.
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How can I modify i3status?
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.
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Screenshot i3 Block Button: an easy way to take screenshots with a single click. The captured screenshot is automatically copied to the clipboard and can also be saved in a file by clicking on a notification.
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.
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Event listening statusbar
You can use the default swaybar with i3blocks as the status_command. i3blocks can receive signals.
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swaybar : i3blocks's block always turn into "]" character after clicked, turn normal when sway is reloaded.
From https://vivien.github.io/i3blocks/
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I made (yet another) status bar generator - yablocks
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.
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i3blocks xwindow display solution
within your i3blocks config. This solution doesn't always work, especially in firefox, and is prone to hanging. Even using :
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which status bar will let me customize it easily and let me write shell scripts for it?
I use i3blocks and write all the scripts myself, these examples can be a good starting point.
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Shell script as an alternative to i3status.
https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks.git https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks-contrib.git
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Finally , my first i3wm+polybar
https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks#click
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[i3status] How to Get An output command ????
You might check out https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks instead of i3status.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing i3status-rust and i3blocks you can also consider the following projects:
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
i3status - Generates status bar to use with i3bar, dzen2 or xmobar
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
i3blocks-contrib - Official repository for community contributed blocklets
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
nord-kitty - An arctic, north-bluish clean and elegant Kitty theme
polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
sowm - An itsy bitsy floating window manager (220~ sloc!).
dotfiles - The ricer's canvas
i3status-rust vs Waybar
i3blocks vs i3status
i3status-rust vs pywal
i3blocks vs i3blocks-contrib
i3status-rust vs rofi
i3blocks vs spicetify-themes
i3status-rust vs i3blocks-contrib
i3blocks vs nord-kitty
i3status-rust vs polybar-themes
i3blocks vs sowm
i3status-rust vs i3status
i3blocks vs dotfiles