Custom status_command text update

answered Aug 21 '12

Michael
3081 ●13 ●28 ●50 http://i3wm.org/

Sorry, I must have missed your question, or I’d have replied earlier.

Please read this document to understand how to send JSON to i3bar: http://i3wm.org/docs/i3bar-protocol.html (pay attention to the header part: unless you are using a recent git "next" version, you need to send it exactly as {"version":1}).

It also contains a link to a simple shell script (for illustrational purposes only!) which demonstrates how to put an (updating) clock into i3bar: http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3/tree...

Since you are using python, there also is a wrapper script which reads i3status’s JSON and adds the current CPU governor: http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3statu...

In case these resources don’t help, please post your code so we can tell you what’s wrong. Without the code, we can’t do anything.

answered Apr 18 '13

Privan
1

I made something very simple and hacky. However, I think it is efficient and sufficient. I've been using it instead of i3status or conky.

#!/bin/sh

echo '{ "version": 1 }'

echo '['

echo '[],'

readonly PRE='{ "full_text": "'
readonly COL='", "color": "'
readonly CER='" }'

KERNELV=$PRE"K: $(uname -sr)"$COL'#bbaacc'$CER

i=5

while :
do

if [ "$i" -eq "5" ]; then 
BATERIA=$PRE"B: $(acpi -b | awk '{print $NF}')"$COL'#ccbbaa'$CER
DISK=$PRE"D: $(df -h | awk '/sda1/ {print $5 " ("$4" Disp.)" }')"$COL'#ccaabb'$CER
UPTIME=$PRE"🕐: $(awk  '{printf "%.2f", $0/3600;}' /proc/uptime)h"$COL'#ccaabb'$CER
let i=0
fi

let i="$i+1"
CALOR=$PRE"T: $(acpi -t | awk '{print $(NF-2)}')°C"$COL'#ccbbaa'$CER

LOAD=$PRE"L: $(cat /proc/loadavg)"$COL'#ccbbaa'$CER
VOL=$PRE"♪: $(pactl list sinks | awk '/Volume: 0:/{print $NF}')"$COL'#bbccaa'$CER
FECHA=$PRE"$(date +'%A,%_d %B %Y  %H:%M:%S')"$COL'#aaccbb'$CER

echo "[$KERNELV,$UPTIME,$CALOR,$BATERIA,$LOAD,$DISK,$VOL,$FECHA]," || exit 1
sleep 5s;
done