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Different font for workspace and status section

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:38:50 +0000

I would like to set two different fonts for the workspace section on left side and the status output on the right side of the i3bar. I know that I can change the font for the whole i3bar, but as far as I can tell by reading the official documentation using two different fonts is not possible. Does someone has a solution for this problem or would I need to change the source code?

Answer by MK13 for
I would like to set two different fonts for the workspace section on left side and the status output on the right side of the i3bar. I know that I can change the font for the whole i3bar, but as far as I can tell by reading the official documentation using two different fonts is not possible.

Does someone has a solution for this problem or would I need to change the source code?

Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:10:59 +0000

Thanks to airblader for pointing me into the right direction :) Here is the solution I came up with by utilizing pango markup: i3statuswrapper.sh: 1 #!/bin/bash 2 3 function f_ram() 4 { 5 echo $(free | grep Mem | awk '{printf("%.0fMiB/%.0fMiB", $3/1024, $2/1024)}') 6 } 7 8 function f_uptime() 9 { 10 echo $(uptime -p) 11 } 12 13 echo '{ "version": 1 }' 14 echo '[' 15 echo '[]' 16 17 i3status | while : 18 do 19 read line 20 ram_s=$(f_ram) 21 uptime_s=$(f_uptime) 22 full="UP: $uptime_s | RAM: $ram_s | $line" 23 24 echo ",[{\"name\": \"all\",\"full_text\":\""$full"\",\"align\": \"right\",\"urgent\": false,\"separator\": false,\"markup\": \"pango\"}]" 25 done i3status/config: ... # ordinary config 14 order += "cpu_usage" 15 order += "disk /media" 16 order += "disk /home" 17 order += "disk /" 18 order += "volume master" 19 order += "tztime local" ... i3/config: 144 bar { 145 status_command /home/USER/.config/i3status/i3statuswrapper.sh 146 147 148 font pango:RealChinese 10 ... 159 }

Answer by Airblader for
I would like to set two different fonts for the workspace section on left side and the status output on the right side of the i3bar. I know that I can change the font for the whole i3bar, but as far as I can tell by reading the official documentation using two different fonts is not possible.

Does someone has a solution for this problem or would I need to change the source code?

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 20:52:34 +0000

You can try using pango markup which allows changing the font. If that doesn't work, you either need to change the source code or hack together a really tricky font that combines two others (not exactly my recommendation).

Comment by MK13 for
You can try using pango markup which allows changing the font. If that doesn't work, you either need to change the source code or hack together a really tricky font that combines two others (not exactly my recommendation).

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:33:23 +0000

Thanks for your fast reply. I will look into into pango markup.

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Different font for workspace and status section

Comment by MK13 for You can try using pango markup which allows changing the font. If that doesn't work, you either need to change the source code or hack together a really tricky font that combines two others (not exactly my recommendation).

Comment by MK13 for
You can try using pango markup which allows changing the font. If that doesn't work, you either need to change the source code or hack together a really tricky font that combines two others (not exactly my recommendation).