I3blocks

Installation

Get it from github:

cd ~/apps
git clone git@github.com:vivien/i3blocks.git
cd i3blocks
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install
cd ~/.config
git clone git@github.com:vivien/i3blocks-contrib.git i3blocks
cd i3blocks && cp config.example config

Then update the status_command in your i3 config:

   status_command SCRIPT_DIR=~/.config/i3blocks /usr/local/bin/i3blocks

Config

There are tons of dotfiles out there. Edit mine here:

.config/i3blocks/config

With i3blocks-contrib stupid layout, your commands need to look like this, eg:

[volume]
command=$SCRIPT_DIR/volume/volume

I like a space after the label. To do that, add ONLY a space after the unicode symbol, eg:

label=♪