soumya92/barista

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# Barista

Barista is an i3 status bar written in golang.

**This is not an official Google product**

## Features

- Based on push rather than fixed interval polling. This allows immediate updates
  for many modules, like volume, media, shell, etc.

- Produces a single binary via go build. This makes it easy to set up the bar
  executable, since no import paths, environment variables, et al. need to be
  configured.

- Good click handlers (especially media and volume), since we can wait for a
  command and update the bar immediately rather than waiting for the next 'tick'.

- Configuration is code, providing oodles of customization options without
  needing myriad configuration options in a file somewhere. If/then/else, loops,
  functions, variables, and even other go packages can all be used seamlessly.

## Usage

See samples/sample-bar.go for a sample bar.

To build your own bar, simply create a `package main` go file,
import and configure the modules you wish to use, and call `barista.Run()`.

To show your bar in i3, set the `status_command` of a `bar { ... }` section
to be the newly built bar binary, e.g.

```
bar {
  position top
  status_command exec ~/bin/mybar
  font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 10
}
```