README


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DESCRIPTION
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i3status is a small program (about 1500 SLOC) for generating a status bar for 
i3bar, 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.

DEVELOPMENT
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i3status has the following dependencies:
- libconfuse-dev
- libyajl-dev
- libasound2-dev
- libiw-dev
- asciidoc (only for the documentation)

On debian-based systems, the following line will install all requirements:
apt-get install libconfuse-dev libyajl-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev asciidoc

GIT-REPOSITORY
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The Code is developed at 
  http://code.i3wm.org/i3status
  
You may clone the git-repository from
  git://code.i3wm.org/i3status

Talk to Michael Stapelberg for pull-requests at 
  michael+i3status@stapelberg.de
  
COMPILING
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Compiling is done with the usual make-line
  make && sudo make install