i3status is a small program (around 500 SLOC) for filling dzen2 or wmii’s status bar via its 9P pseudo filesystem. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small number of systemcalls (as the bar should be updated every second or at your specified interval). This ensures that even under high load, your status bar is updated correctly and it saves a little bit of battery life by not spawning new processes every second like shell scripts do.
i3status is currently developed at http://code.stapelberg.de/git/i3status. Checkouts of the master branch are intended to be stable and working all the time. Integration of new features happens in a separate branch.
Contact us at irc://irc.twice-irc.de/i3 (or, #i3 on irc.twice-irc.de, for those without proper URL handling setup). Feel free to ask questions, please don’t ask to ask and please think before you ask :-).
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