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i3status-2.15p0

generate a statusbar for use with i3/xmobar/dzen2

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Description

i3status is a small program (about 1500 SLOC) for generating a status bar for dzen2, xmobar or similar programs. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small number of system calls, as one generally wants to update such a status line every second. This ensures that even under high load, your status bar is updated correctly. Also, it saves a bit of energy by not hogging your CPU as much as spawning the corresponding amount of shell commands would.

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Ports path
x11/i3status
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Robert Nagy <robert@openbsd.org>
Categories
x11, sysutils
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
arm64, amd64, i386, macppc, riscv64, sparc64

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