Introduction

Installation

# from git (development snapshot)
$ git clone git://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status

# from AUR:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/bumblebee-status.git
cd bumblebee-status
makepkg -sicr

# from PyPI (thanks @tony):
# will install bumblebee-status into ~/.local/bin/bumblebee-status
pip install --user bumblebee-status

There is also a SlackBuild available here: [slackbuilds:bumblebee-status](http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/bumblebee-status/) - many thanks to [@Tonus1](https://github.com/Tonus1)!

Dependencies

List of modules lists the dependencies (Python modules and external executables) for each module. If you are not using a module, you don’t need the dependencies.

Usage

In your i3wm configuration, modify the status_command for your i3bar like this:

bar {
    status_command <path to bumblebee-status/bumblebee-status> \
        -m <list of modules> \
        -p <list of module parameters> \
        -t <theme>
}

Line continuations (breaking a single line into multiple lines) is allowed in the i3 configuration, but please ensure that all lines except the final one need to have a trailing “". This is explained in detail here: [i3 user guide: line continuation](https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#line_continuation)

You can retrieve a list of modules (and their parameters) and themes by entering:

$ cd bumblebee-status
$ ./bumblebee-status -l themes
$ ./bumblebee-status -l modules

To change the update interval, use:

$ ./bumblebee-status -m <list of modules> -p interval=<interval in seconds>

The update interval is the global “refresh” interval of the modules (i.e. how often the bar will be updated with new data). The default interval is one second. It is possible to use suffixes such as “m” (for minutes), or “h” for hours (e.g. -p interval=5m to update once every 5 minutes.

Note that some modules define their own intervals (e.g. most modules that query an online service), such as to not cause a storm of “once every second” queries.

For more details on that, please refer to Advanced usage.

All modules can be given “aliases” using <module name>:<alias>, by which they can be parametrized, for example:

$ ./bumblebee-status -m disk:root disk:home -p root.path=/ home.path=/home

As a simple example, this is what my i3 configuration looks like:

bar {
    font pango:Inconsolata 10
    position top
    tray_output none
    status_command ~/.i3/bumblebee-status/bumblebee-status -m nic disk:root \
        cpu memory battery date time pasink pasource dnf \
        -p root.path=/ time.format="%H:%M CW %V" date.format="%a, %b %d %Y" \
        -t solarized-powerline
}

Restart i3wm and - that’s it!