How to redraw status line after a shortcut or any shortcut?

answered Oct 17 '14

cee
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updated Oct 18 '14

I defined a variable $update in my config file that can be appended to any command that you would like to update the statusbar.

set $update && killall -SIGUSR1 i3status

For volume up, down and mute I have following commands:

bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume    exec $psst pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -- -5% && pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ 0 $update
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume    exec $psst pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -- +5% && pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ 0 $update
bindsym XF86AudioMute           exec $psst pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle $update

where $psst is another variable that just disables any startup notification.

set $psst --no-startup-id

You can find my whole config file on github for reference.

answered Oct 17 '14

Adaephon
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updated Oct 17 '14

You can send the signal SIGUSR1 to i3status to force an update. To do this add ; killall -SIGUSR1 i3stats to the commands you use for volume control and make sure that the whole command (what is actually run, not the i3 configuration parts) is in quotes, else the ; will be interpreted by i3.

So something like this should work

bindsym SomeKey exec --no-startup-id "change-volume +5 ; killall -SIGUSR1 i3status"