https://faq.i3wm.org/questions/Frequently asked questions and answers about the i3 window managerenCopyright i3, 2012Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:25:23 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/I would like to extend the status information displayed by i3status like described in the [i3status man pages](http://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html#_external_scripts_programs_with_i3status). This is working fine for me except doing so removes all colored output of i3status. Is there a way to extend the output of i3status while keeping all colors? Thank you very much!Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:00:43 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/?answer=460#post-id-460Yes, there are two examples (one in Perl, one in Python) on how to do this at http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3status/tree/contrib (wrapper.pl and wrapper.py)Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:05:15 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/?answer=460#post-id-460https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/?comment=461#comment-461Great, thank you! :-)Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:43:37 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/?comment=461#comment-461https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/?comment=1633#comment-1633This worked great, thanks!Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:25:23 +0000https://faq.i3wm.org/question/459/external-scriptsprograms-in-i3status-without-loosing-colors/?comment=1633#comment-1633