gostatus

status bar written in Go for i3wm

build & install

check out releases or build manually.

• go install github.com/lsgrep/gostatus@latest
• if you want to use ping, sudo setcap cap_net_raw+ep gostatus,
• edit & copy/create gostatus.yml, keep in mind to update network interface and disk path accordingly
• change status_command in ~/.config/i3/config, e.g. status_command gostatus --config config.yml

multiple monitor setup

• displays can be queried via xrandr -q

bar {
    # The display is connected either via HDMI or via DisplayPort
    output DP-0
    status_command gostatus --config ~/.config/i3/gostatus.yml
}

bar {
    output HDMI-0
    status_command gostatus --config ~/.config/i3/gostatus.min.yml
}

logs

• default log location /tmp/gostatus.log

debugging

Just run it and read the stdout. Except the first JSON object line, each line should be a JSON array with a leading comma(,), or i3bar will fail to parse the line.

$ ./gostatus --config config.yml
{ "version": 1, "stop_signal": 10, "cont_signal": 12, "click_events": true }[[],[{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]          
,[{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]                         
,[{"full_text":" 16.28%"},{"full_text":" 7.71GB / 15.58GB"},{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]                             
,[{"full_text":" 16.28%"},{"full_text":" 7.71GB / 15.58GB"},{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]                             
,[{"full_text":" 16.28%"},{"full_text":"10.30.7.13","color":"#00ff00"},{"full_text":" 7.71GB / 15.58GB"},{"full_text":"  / 71.18GB / 109.53GB"},{"full_text":"  /data 169.68GB / 228.23GB"},{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]                          
,[{"full_text":" 16.28%"},{"full_text":"10.30.7.13","color":"#00ff00"},{"full_text":" 7.70GB / 15.58GB"},{"full_text":"  / 71.18GB / 109.53GB"},{"full_text":"  /data 169.68GB / 228.23GB"},{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]                          
,[{"full_text":" 16.28%"},{"full_text":"10.30.7.13","color":"#00ff00"},{"full_text":" 7.70GB / 15.58GB"},{"full_text":"  / 71.18GB / 109.53GB"},{"full_text":"  /data 169.68GB / 228.23GB"},{"full_text":"14 Mar 18 15:46 CST"}]  

Inspired by

• https://github.com/burik666/yagostatus
• https://github.com/davidscholberg/goblocks