Re: [i3] memory information in i3status

  • From: Johannes Lange <johannes.lange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 19:02:26 +0200

Hi,

On 01/04/15 18:38, Rob wrote:

you are probably better off with a script doing that, which pops up an alert
when your RAM usage reaches a certain threshold
Maybe, but it would be nice if the option was built in anyway. I don't
suppose there is any way to add it as a user configuration?
You can (more or less) easily pipe i3status through a wrapper script
(see [1] and example wrappers [2]) that you can use to add functionality
as you like.
You might also be interested in i3blocks [3] as a replacement for
i3status. This makes adding new scripts more straight-forward and even
has example MEM/CPU scripts included (I did not follow the whole
discussion here, so I don't know if these fit your needs).

Cheers,
Johannes

[1]
http://i3wm.org/i3status/manpage.html#_external_scripts_programs_with_i3status
[2] http://code.zekjur.net/git/i3status/tree/contrib
[3] https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks

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