i3status VS i3status-rust

My time display is in i3status, but that doesn't help you if you're using Windows.

Here is the default config on github - https://github.com/i3/i3status/blob/master/etc/i3status.conf

You need to append your custom arguments using JSON. You can look at this example here: https://github.com/i3/i3status/blob/master/contrib/net-speed.sh

https://github.com/i3/i3status/blob/2.13/i3status.c#L830

It sounds like you're asking how i3status rewrites the existing output line when you run it in a terminal. It and other programs that do this (e.g. long running commands with progress bars) use terminal escape codes. The relevant source line (as best I can tell) is at https://github.com/i3/i3status/blob/30a32cce3a16e6c79a81aad467cfe13c12e688cb/i3status.c#L662

Otherwise, the source for the wireless portion of i3status appears to be here: https://github.com/i3/i3status/blob/master/src/print_wireless_info.c

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.