istat

I used to use i3blocks for i3's status_command, but I found that having all my configuration in separate scripts was getting a little cumbersome.

That, and also I could never find a good block for volume control that wasn't janky or slow.

So, I decided to write my own status_command generator, and what better language to write it in than Rust!

Features

• completely single threaded
  • less resource usage - it's a status command, it shouldn't be heavy
• many different integrations
  • PulseAudio (works with pipewire)
  • Disk space
  • Time
  • Memory usage
  • CPU usage
  • CPU temperature
  • Network interface + status (IP addresses, wifi ssid and quality, etc)
  • Network usage (active monitoring for upload/download)
  • Arbitrary scripts
  • Kerberos status
  • Dunst monitor
    • checks if dunst has been paused or not, like a "do not disturb" indicator
• ipc control
  • send click events via a command
  • custom events for some integrations (e.g., controlling PulseAudio, etc)
  • refresh items

Install

With Rust (via cargo):

cargo install istat
# Make sure to look at the `sample_config.toml` file for configuration options

Via the AUR (Arch Linux):

paru -S istat

Usage

Probably don't use this yet... I'm still hacking on it, but you can have a look around?

To Do

• conditionally disable bar items