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The base of all of this is notifications. Because my i3 came with dunst and I liked the simple look of it I decided to use it as the notification daemon. I wanted to have 3 simple things: display current status of the volume via text, display an icon so it is somewhat prettier, display the volume level via a progress bar. Lucily all these are possible via dunst.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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If you think don't want to bother with the code, you can just download it from GitHub. I made it so that in the top few lines you can easily configure few basic things. Don't forget to download the icons too if you need them.
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I switched to the i3 tiling based window manager. Because it's a whole different environment and thinking, it was very different from what I was used to. The volume buttons were working on my keyboard, but I didn't get any visual feedback. Furthermore, the volume percentage could go down below zero and increase up to more than hundread percent. There were times when I was confused why the keys stopped working, but the actual hidden reason was that the volume's value was somehow -500 percent, so increasing it by 5 percent via my keys would have taken a little time.
