bumblebee-status

Many, many thanks to all contributors! As of now, 39 of the modules are from various contributors (!), and only 18 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

Supported FontAwesome version: 4 (free version of 5 doesn't include some of the icons)

Explicitly unsupported Python versions: 3.2 (missing unicode literals)

ℹ️ The is required for all themes that contain icons (because that is the font that includes these icons). Please refer to your distribution's package management on how to install them, or get them from their website directly. Also, please note that Font Awesome removed some icons used by bumblebee-status from the free set in version 5, so if possible, stick with 4.

# Font Awesome installation instructions

# Arch Linux
$ sudo pacman -S awesome-terminal-fonts

# Other
# see https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts

Example usage:

bar {
	status_command <path>/bumblebee-status -m cpu memory battery time pasink pasource -p time.format="%H:%M" -t solarized
}

Documentation

See the wiki for documentation.

See FAQ for, well, FAQs.

Other resources:

Installation

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

Dependencies

Available modules lists the dependencies (Python modules and external executables) for each module. If you are not using a module, you don't need the dependencies.

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 their parameters) 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.

Parameters can also be used to override theme settings, such as:

$ ./bumblebee-status -p <module>.theme.<theme field>=<value>
# for example, to get a spacer with a red background:
$ ./bumblebee-status -m spacer -p spacer.theme.bg=#ff0000

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!

Events

By default, the following events are handled:

Mouse-Wheel on any module moves to the next/previous i3 workspace
Left-click on the "disk" module opens the specified path in nautilus
Left-click on either "memory" or "cpu" opens gnome-system-monitor
Left-click on a "pulseaudio" (or pasource/pasink) module toggles the mute state
Right-click on a "pulseaudio" module opens pavucontrol
Mouse-Wheel up/down on a "pulseaudio" module raises/lowers the volume

By default, the Mouse-Wheel wraps for the current output. You can disable this behavior by providing the parameter engine.workspacewrap=false (starting with version 1.4.5). Also, you can completely disable output switching by using engine.workspacewheel=false.

You can provide your own handlers to any module by using the following "special" configuration parameters:

left-click
right-click
middle-click
wheel-up
wheel-down For example, to execute "pavucontrol" whenever you left-click on the nic module, you could write:

$ bumblebee-status -p nic.left-click="pavucontrol"

In the string, you can use the following format identifiers:

name
instance
button

For example:

$ bumblebee-status -p disk.left-click="nautilus {instance}"

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.

Advanced Usage

If you want to have a minimal bar that stays out of the way, you can use the -a or --autohide switch to specify a list of module names. All those modules will only be displayed when (and as long as) their state is either warning or critical (high CPU usage, low disk space, etc.). As long as the module is in a "normal" state and does not require attention, it will remain hidden.

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', 'currency')
power (for the module 'battery')
dbus (for the module 'spotify')
i3ipc (for the module 'title')
pacman-contrib (for module 'arch-update')
docker (for the module 'docker_ps')

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)
zpool (for module 'zpool')
progress (for module 'progress')

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 @TheEdgeOfRage):