bumblebee-status

Many, many thanks to all contributors! As of now, 22 of the modules are from various contributors (!), and only 16 from myself.

bumblebee-status is a modular, theme-able status line generator for the i3 window manager.

Focus is on:

• Ease of use (no configuration files!)
• Theme support
• Extensibility (of course...)

One thing I like in particular: You can use the mouse wheel up/down to switch workspaces forward and back everywhere throughout the bar (unless you have mapped the mouse wheel buttons to another action for a widget, in which case this doesn't work while hovering that particular widget).

I hope you like it and appreciate any kind of feedback: Bug reports, Feature requests, etc. :)

Thanks a lot!

Required i3wm version: 4.12+ (in earlier versions, blocks won't have background colors)

Supported Python versions: 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6

Explicitly unsupported Python versions: 3.2 (missing unicode literals)

Documentation

See the wiki for documentation.

Other resources:

• A list of available modules
• How to write a theme
• How to write a module

Installation

$ git clone git://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status

Usage

Normal 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>
}

You can retrieve a list of modules and themes by entering:

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

Any parameter you can specify with -p <name>=<value>, you can alternatively specify in ~/.bumblebee-status.conf or ~/.config/bumblebee-status.conf. This parameters act as a fallback, so values specified with -p have priority.

Configuration files have a format like this:

$ cat ~/.bumblebee-status.conf
[module-parameters]
<key> = <value>

For example:

$ cat ~/.bumblebee-status.conf
[module-parameters]
github.token=abcdefabcdef12345

To change the update interval, use:

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

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!

Errors

If errors occur, you should see them in the i3bar itself. If that does not work, or you need more information for troubleshooting, you can activate a debug log using the -d or --debug switch:

$ ./bumblebee-status -d -m <list of modules>

This will create a file called ~/bumblebee-status-debug.log by default. The file name can be changed by using the -f or --logfile option.

Required Modules

Modules and commandline utilities are only required for modules, the core itself has no external dependencies at all.

• psutil (for the modules 'cpu', 'memory', 'traffic')
• netifaces (for the modules 'nic', 'traffic')
• requests (for the modules 'weather', 'github', 'getcrypto', 'stock')
• power (for the module 'battery')
• dbus (for the module 'spotify')
• i3rpc (for the module 'title')

Required commandline utilities

• xset (for the module 'caffeine')
• notify-send (for the module 'caffeine')
• cmus-remote (for the module 'cmus')
• dnf (for the module 'dnf')
• gpmdp-remote (for the module 'gpmdp')
• setxkbmap (for the module 'layout')
• fakeroot (for the module 'pacman')
• pacman (for the module 'pacman')
• pactl (for the module 'pulseaudio')
• ping (for the module 'ping')
• redshift (for the module 'redshift')
• xrandr (for the module 'xrandr')
• mpc (for the module 'mpd')
• bluez / blueman (for module 'bluetooth')
• dbus-send (for module 'bluetooth')
• nvidia-smi (for module 'nvidiagpu')
• sensors (for module 'sensors', as fallback)

Examples

Here are some screenshots for all themes that currently exist:

❗ Some themes (all 'Powerline' themes) require Font Awesome and a powerline-compatible font (powerline-fonts, for example) to display all icons correctly.

Gruvbox Powerline (-t gruvbox-powerline) (contributed by @paxy97):

Solarized Powerline (-t solarized-powerline):

Gruvbox (-t gruvbox):

Solarized (-t solarized):

Powerline (-t powerline):

Default (nothing or -t default):