bumblebee-status

logo courtesy of kellya - thank you!

Many, many thanks to all contributors! I am still amazed by and deeply grateful for how many PRs this project gets.

Click here for a list of available modules

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

Focus is on:

• ease of use, sane defaults (no mandatory configuration file)
• easy creation of custom themes
• easy creation of custom modules

I hope you like it and I 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: 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9

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

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NOTE

The default branch for this project is main. If you are curious why: ZDNet:github-master-alternative

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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 docs for detailed documentation.

See FAQ for. well, FAQs.

Other resources:

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

Installation

# from git (development snapshot)
$ git clone git://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status.git

# from AUR:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/bumblebee-status.git
cd bumblebee-status
makepkg -sicr

# from PyPI (thanks @tony):
# will install bumblebee-status into ~/.local/bin/bumblebee-status
pip install --user bumblebee-status

There is also a SlackBuild available here: slackbuilds:bumblebee-status - many thanks to @Tonus1!

An ebuild, for Gentoo Linux, is available on gallifrey overlay. Instructions for adding the overlay can be found here.

bumblebee-status is also avaliable in nixpkgs unstable channel- many thanks to [@augustebaum][https://github.com/augustebaum]!

For installing from nixpkgs, add the following snippet into your configuration.nix:

{
  environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
      (bumblebee-status.override{plugins = p:[p.cpu];})
  ];
}

replace [p.cpu] with the list of plugins that you want to use.

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.

Some themes (e.g. all ‘powerline’ themes) require Font Awesome http://fontawesome.io/ and a powerline-compatible font (powerline-fonts) https://github.com/powerline/fonts

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

To change the update interval, use:

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

The update interval can also be changed on a per-module basis, like this:

$ ./bumblebee-status -m cpu memory -p cpu.interval=5s memory.interval=1m

All modules can be given "aliases" using <module name>:<alias>, by which they can be parametrized, for example:

$ ./bumblebee-status -m disk:root disk:home -p root.path=/ home.path=/home

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!

Examples

List of themes