i3pystatus

i3pystatus is a (hopefully growing) collection of python scripts for status output compatible to i3status / i3bar of the i3 window manager.

the ver3 branch is undergoing heavy development at the time

Installation

To install it, follow these steps:

cd ~/.config/i3status/
git clone git@github.com:janoliver/i3pystatus contrib
cd contrib/i3pystatus
cp __main__.py.dist __main__.py

Add the following to ~/.config/i3status/config:

general {
    output_format = "i3bar"
    colors = true
    interval = 5
}

Change your i3wm config to the following:

# i3bar
bar {
    status_command    cd ~/.config/i3status/contrib ; i3status | python -m i3pystatus
    position          top
    workspace_buttons yes
}

And finally adjust the settings in ~/.config/i3status/contrib/i3pystatus/__main__.py as you like.

Modules

Many modules let you modify the output via a format string.

alsa

Shows volume of ALSA mixer. You can also use this for inputs, btw.

Requires pyalsaaudio

• format — {volume} is the current volume, {muted} is one of muted or unmuted. {card} is the sound card used; {mixer} the mixer. (default: ♪: {volume})
• mixer — ALSA mixer (default: Master)
• mixer_id — ALSA mixer id (default: 0)
• card — ALSA sound card (default: 0)
• muted — (default: M)
• unmuted — (default: ``)
• color_muted — (default: #AAAAAA)
• color — (default: #FFFFFF)
• channel — (default: 0)

backlight

Screen backlight info

Available formatters:

• brightness

• max_brightness

• percentage

• format — format string (default: {brightness}/{max_brightness})

• backlight — backlight, see /sys/class/backlight/ (default: acpi_video0)

• color — (default: #FFFFFF)

battery

This class uses the /sys/class/power_supply/…/uevent interface to check for the battery status

• battery_ident — (default: BAT0)
• format — (default: {status} {remaining})

clock

This class shows a clock

• format — stftime format string (default: None)

file

Rip information from text files

components is a dict of pairs of the form:

name => (callable, file)

• Where name is a valid identifier, which is used in the format string to access the value of that component.
• callable is some callable to convert the contents of file. A common choice is float or int.
• file names a file, relative to base_path.

transforms is a optional dict of callables taking a single argument (a dictionary containing the values of all components). The return value is bound to the key.

• format — (required)
• components — (required)
• transforms — (default: {})
• base_path — (default: /)
• color — (default: #FFFFFF)
• interval — (default: 5)

load

Shows system load

• format — format string used for output. {avg1}, {avg5} and {avg15} are the load average of the last one, five and fifteen minutes, respectively. {tasks} is the number of tasks (i.e. 1/285, which indiciates that one out of 285 total tasks is runnable). (default: {avg1} {avg5})

mail

Generic mail checker

The backends setting determines the backends to use. Currently available are:

• backends — List of backends (instances of i3pystatus.mail.xxx)

• color — (default: #ffffff)

• color_unread — (default: #ff0000)

• format — (default: {unread} new email)

• format_plural — (default: {unread} new emails)

• hide_if_null — Don't output anything if there are no new mails (default: True)

  Currently available backends are:

imap

Checks for mail on a IMAP server

• host — (required)
• port — (default: 143)
• username — (required)
• password — (required)
• ssl — (default: False)

notmuchmail

This class uses the notmuch python bindings to check for the number of messages in the notmuch database with the tags "inbox" and "unread"

• db_path — (required)

thunderbird

This class listens for dbus signals emitted by the dbus-sender extension for thunderbird.

Requires

• python-dbus
• python-gobject2

modsde

This class returns i3status parsable output of the number of unread posts in any bookmark in the mods.de forums.

• format — Use {unread} as the formatter for number of unread posts (default: {unread} new posts in bookmarks)
• offset — subtract number of posts before output (default: 0)
• color — (default: #7181fe)
• username — (required)
• password — (required)

regex

Simple regex file watcher

• format — format string used for output (default: {0})
• regex — (required)
• file — file to search for regex matches
• flags — Python.re flags (default: 0)

runwatch

Expands the given path using glob to a pidfile and checks if the process ID found inside is valid (that is, if the process is running). You can use this to check if a specific application, such as a VPN client or your DHCP client is running.

Available formatters are {pid} and {name}.

• format_up — (default: {name})
• format_down — (default: {name})
• color_up — (default: #00FF00)
• color_down — (default: #FF0000)
• path — (required)
• name — (required)

temp

Shows CPU temperature of Intel processors

AMD is currently not supported as they can only report a relative temperature, which is pretty useless

• format — format string used for output. {temp} is the temperature in degrees celsius, {critical} and {high} are the trip point temps. (default: {temp} °C)
• color — (default: #FFFFFF)
• color_critical — (default: #FF0000)
• high_factor — (default: 0.7)

Contribute

To contribute a module, make sure it uses one of the Module classes. Most modules use IntervalModule, which just calls a function repeatedly in a specified interval.

The output attribute should be set to a dictionary which represents your modules output, the protocol is documented here.

Please add an example for how to configure it to __main__.py.dist. It should be a python class that can be registered with the I3statusHandler class. Also don't forget to add yourself to the LICENSE file.

Patches and pull requests are very welcome :-)