examples

style	example
angles
powerline
rounded
simple
solid

description

a lightweight i3blocks implementation with stylised blocks and visual OK WARN NOK alerting on returned values

uses

alsa-utils nvidia pulseaudio

blocks

volume wifi memory cpu load gpu time

installation

• update your i3 config to start the bar with the new i3blocks configuration file: bar { status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3blocks/i3blocks.conf }
• clone or download this repo into ~/.config/i3blocks, and get the default fonts

sudo pacman -S python-psutil ttf-font-awesome ttf-inconsolata-nerd
cd ~/.config
git clone https://github.com/mikeredev/i3blocks.git
chmod +x control
i3-msg restart

signals

1 volume 2 ethernet 3 wifi

mouse actions

$BLOCK_BUTTON allows for the following mouse events:

1: left-click
2: middle-click
3: right-click
4: mouse wheel up
5: mouse wheel down

configuring thresholds

• define warning and critical thresholds directly in i3blocks.conf, e.g.:

[load]
command="$HOME"/.config/i3blocks/control --check load --warning 0.7 --critical 1.0

[gpu]
command="$HOME"/.config/i3blocks/control --check $BLOCK_NAME --warning 70 --critical 80

creating new blocks

• store new modules in the blocks directory
• the control script will call its i3blocks_check(warning, critical) function

styling

• colors/fonts/glyphs can be defined in i3blocks.conf

more info

• config files for i3, dunst, etc., may be found in dotfiles repo
• any custom scripts attached here can probably be found in dotfiles/scripts/tools/
• i3blocks documentation
• vivien/i3blocks