i3-lemonbar

Status script and configuration for Lemonbar and i3wm.

Configuration is taken from beautiful powerline setup by electro7.

Status feeder script is written completely in Python and uses i3ipc for most of the interaction with i3.

Features

• Event-based, rather than periodically updated
• Multiple display output support

Installation

• Install lemonbar.
• Install i3ipc-python library.

        pip install i3ipc

• Make sure you have terminus and terminesspowerline fonts installed. You can get them here.
• Clone this repo (e.g. to your .i3 directory).

        mkdir ~/.i3/lemonbar && git clone https://github.com/mirekys/i3-lemonbar.git ~/.i3/lemonbar

• Configure i3 to use Lemonbar. (this is just an exemple, all the color variables are hier "#rrggbb". you can use multiple color formating: [aa]#rrggbb (aa in hex), #rrggbb, #aarrggbb.

        bar {
#       default general config
	id bar-0
	position top
	workspace_buttons yes
	strip_workspace_numbers no
	strip_workspace_name no
	binding_mode_indicator yes
	modifier $mod

#	commands
	i3bar_command "$I3C/lemonbar/i3_lemonbar.py -t ,[c0]#000000,"

#	font (the first is used for the text and the other for the icons)
	set_from_resource $genfont bar.font	-xos4-terminesspowerline-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1
	set_from_resource $icofont bar.iconfont	-xos4-terminusicons2mono-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-m-60-iso8859-1
	font "$genfont,$icofont"

#	separators used by the bar.separated by commas
#	#powerline separators (warnig: make sure that the end of each line is empty):
		set $sep_right 
		set $sep_left 
	separator_symbol "$sep_left,$sep_right"

	colors {
 	background	"[5F]$xbg"
	statusline	$xfg

#	class name		border		background	text
	focused_workspace	"[C0]$xbg"	"[C0]$xbg"	$xfg
	inactive_workspace	"[90]$xbg"	"[90]$xbg"	$c07
	urgent_workspace	"[90]$c01"	"[90]$c01"	$c07
	binding_mode		"[A0]$xbg"	"[A0]$xbg"	$c01
	}
}