# i3status

## Description

i3status is a small program for generating a status bar for i3bar, dzen2, xmobar
or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small
number of system calls, as one generally wants to update such a status line
every second. This ensures that even under high load, your status bar is updated
correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging your CPU as much as
spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.

## Development

i3status has the following dependencies:
  * libconfuse-dev
  * libyajl-dev
  * libasound2-dev
  * libnl-genl-3-dev
  * meson (compile-time only dependency)
  * asciidoc (only for the documentation)
  * libpulse-dev (for getting the current volume using PulseAudio)

On debian-based systems, the following line will install all requirements:
```bash
apt-get install autoconf libconfuse-dev libyajl-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev asciidoc libpulse-dev libnl-genl-3-dev meson
```

On OpenBSD, the following line will install some of the requirements:
```bash
pkg_add autoconf libconfuse libyajl asciidoc pluseaudio meson
```

## Upstream

i3status is developed at https://github.com/i3/i3status

## Compilation

Prefer installing i3status via your Linux distribution’s package manager.

If you absolutely have to build from source, use:

```bash
  mkdir build
  cd build
  meson ..
  ninja
  sudo ninja install
```