i3-barista

README

i3-barista

My personal i3-status bar based on barista. The community modules can be found in the martinohmann/barista-contrib repository.

Installation

To install the bar, run the following:

make install

This will build and place the i3-barista executable in $GOPATH/bin.

Update the status_command in the i3 configuration:

# top bar
bar {
  id bar0
  # You need one of the nerd fonts to correctly display the glyphs used in the
  # bar. See https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts for more information.
  font "xft:Hack Nerd Font Mono Bold 9"
  status_command i3-barista --bar top
  position top
  ...
}

# bottom bar
bar {
  id bar1
  font "xft:Hack Nerd Font Mono Bold 9"
  status_command i3-barista --bar bottom
  position bottom
  ...
}

Dependencies

The bar requires the following binaries to be available in the path to function correctly:

• checkupdates from pacman-contrib for displaying pacman updates in the bar
• nmtui-connect for managing wifi networks
• urxvt to open certain click actions in a terminal
• dmenu_session for displaying the session picker when clicking on the session bar segment
• xset for querying and toggling DPMS
• setxkblayout for querying and toggling keyboard layouts
• notify-send for displaying additional information when clicking certain bar segments

OpenWeatherMap configuration

The OpenWeatherMap configuration is read from ~/.config/i3/barista/openweathermap.json and has to include at least the apiKey field. See modules/weather/openweathermap/owm.go for all configuration values.

License

The source code of i3-barista is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.