vivien/i3blocks

A flexible scheduler for i3bar

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

@jpleau a note in the sources, or a 1.4 section in https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks/wiki/Migration-Guide would be enough?

Jason Pleau

@jpleau

@vivien entry in wiki should be good imo!

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

okay

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

@jpleau I think I like @Nycroth's (and others) suggestion of having a separated repo for the blocklets. However, that would imply a new package for distribution maintainers. You said it'll be fine for you. Should a new release be done before eventually moving the scripts out from core?

Jason Pleau

@jpleau

@vivien that's up to you. Personally I think there are a few features that are only in git that could be useful to users who are using official releases (Looking at the pango markup option ;) )

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Ok, i'll push a new tag this week end, and create a new repo for the blocklets. Something like i3blocks-blocklets unless there's better suggestions

Jason Pleau

@jpleau

@vivien Not sure if everyone follows on gitter, maybe replying directly to #118 would reach more people ;) Thanks !

kb100

@kb100

I've finally published my usb script. I think most people will want it. Feel free to contribute. https://github.com/kb100/i3blocks-usb

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Ho neat, i'll check this out

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

i3blocks "BATMAN" 1.4 is out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5lUgBNBUC8
Cc: @jpleau

Dany Marcoux

@dmarcoux

Anyone here?

I have a question about signals and it doesn't belong in a issue.

I have the following in my i3 config file and only the XF86 doesn't update my i3blocks. The weird thing is that the Raise and Lower volume both works.... Any idea? Cheers!

Pulse Audio controls
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pulseaudio-ctl up && pkill -SIGRTMIN+1 i3blocks # increase sound volume by 5%
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pulseaudio-ctl down && pkill -SIGRTMIN+1 i3blocks # decrease sound volume by 5%
bindsym XF86AudioMute exec pulseaudio-ctl mute && pkill -SIGRTMIN+1 i3blocks # mute sound

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Hi @dmarcoux

Can you try with the --release bindings? Here's what I use:

bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume           exec BLOCK_BUTTON=5 /usr/local/libexec/i3blocks/volume
bindsym XF86AudioMute                  exec BLOCK_BUTTON=3 /usr/local/libexec/i3blocks/volume
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume           exec BLOCK_BUTTON=4 /usr/local/libexec/i3blocks/volume

bindsym --release XF86AudioLowerVolume exec pkill -SIGRTMIN+10 i3blocks
bindsym --release XF86AudioMute        exec pkill -SIGRTMIN+10 i3blocks
bindsym --release XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec pkill -SIGRTMIN+10 i3blocks

(replace my exec command with your pulseaudio-ctl command for sure)

My related i3blocks config is:

[volume]
label=VOL
instance=Master
interval=once
signal=10

Dany Marcoux

@dmarcoux

Hey @vivien,

Thank you for your message. I tried with --release and it does work, but it doesn't seem to be as responsive as what I used in my previous message. My blocks isn't always updated and is sometimes out of sync with the real state of the sound (Displays mute when it isn't). If I then refresh i3, it displays the correct state.

Do have I to use the BLOCK_BUTTON=X in the first 3 lines?

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Nope, the BLOCK_BUTTON is just there to simulate a click, that's how the default volume script in i3blocks works.

The --release bindsym is triggered when you leave your finger from the key, not when you press the key. That's a matter of choice, but I personally prefer this behavior (in addition to separating the 2 commands)

What is your block's command? Simply clicking on the block should trigger the command and sync the sound status

Dany Marcoux

@dmarcoux

Oh okay, I don't want to simulate clicks to I won't use it. My script doesn't work with this anyway.
I use a global property for all my blocks and it is the following: command=~/.config/i3blocks/blocks/$BLOCK_NAME

Dany Marcoux

@dmarcoux

This is my volume script if it can help somehow: http://pastebin.com/JW5ZdLVT

Jason Pleau

@jpleau

hmm i3blocks 1.4 doesn't build on debian-kfreebsd. I'll setup a freebsd VM and see if I can reproduce there. Logs: https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=i3blocks

Jason Pleau

@jpleau

@vivien I have done this: https://gist.github.com/jpleau/783bfeb9fb59af9b3e01 I'm still trying to figure how the siginfot.sisd (which is why I have put an idndef __FreeBSD around it

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

@jpleau sorry for the delay, I forget that somehow. Can you open a ticket on i3blocks (core) for the freeBSD compatibility issue?

Sebastien Bariteau

@numkem

I'm trying ot wrap my head around the BLOCK_INSTANCE thing. How would I use it to specify the mount point for a disk space check?

I know I can use it by doing something like BLOCK_INSTANCE='/home' /usr/lib/i3blocks/disk on the command line but I'd trying to reproduce the same thing in my configuration.

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

@numkem hi!

[mount]
command=/usr/lib/i3blocks/disk
instance=/home
interval=10

Sebastien Bariteau

@numkem

@vivien that worked! Turns out my problem was a typo in one block... Thanks!

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Great!

Martín Cigorraga

@cig0

Hi all, it seems that the blocklets wiki page has been moved somewhere else, could you please point me where does it reside now?

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Hi @msx, @Nycroth moved it to the contrib repository: https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks-contrib/wiki

Ethan Madison

@ethanmad

In the default config, I'm getting an extra space after the CPU readout. Is this intended?

Ethan Madison

@ethanmad

Here's my config: https://github.com/ethanmad/dotfiles/blob/master/i3/.i3/i3blocks.conf

Ethan Madison

@ethanmad

You can see the space in this screenshot: https://ptpb.pw/8cEK.png

Mike Lubinets

@mersinvald

Hi everyone.
Multiple times I've seen such i3blocks:

How is it possible and how can I draw items like these arrows?

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

lol is that i3blocks ? I did not even know you could do such drawing

Mike Lubinets

@mersinvald

lol there is C code doing this on screenshot, didn't noticed x)
Seems like it using i3blocksm but i'm not sure.

Anyway, thank you!

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

@mersinvald the code is i3's i3bar

Mike Lubinets

@mersinvald

I see)
It's unofficial fork of i3, trying it now.
https://github.com/Airblader/i3

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

@ethanmad yep the extra space is due to the min_width=CPU: 100.00% line in the conf. Get rid of it if you want. It's indeed useless if your CPU block is the first one one the left! :-)

Ethan Madison

@ethanmad

Thanks @vivien. That fixed it!

nikSFirefly

@niksfirefly

is there an option to reload i3blocks ?

Sebastien Bariteau

@numkem

@niksfirefly as far as I know no, you'll have to reload/restart i3. By default it's through $mod+shift+r

nikSFirefly

@niksfirefly

thx @numkem restart i3 do the trick

i cant force i3blocks to use FontAwesome

bar { font pango: FontAwesome 9 } in i3 config dont work

nikSFirefly

@niksfirefly

Ubuntu 14.04 & fonts-font-awesome installed

Nenad Ilic

@nenadilic84

hi guys, is there a way to have a keyboard layout in i3blocks?

and hen have it changed on click :)

Vivien Didelot

@vivien

Hi @nenadilic84! Somebody just emailed me such a script, I asked him to suggest it on i3blocks-contrib, I guess it'll come around soon, keep an eye opened ;-)

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