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| author | Lars Kumbier | 2012-07-10 15:10:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Stapelberg | 2012-07-10 20:33:28 +0200 |
| commit | 3fef39d3f5903c920065ee11910d6cc81b41befc (patch) | |
| tree | eef45fa3f235bc34b926da876df423ab76c725ab /README | |
| parent | clarify the unit of the power consumption and reformat that paragraph (diff) | |
Some information on building i3status from source
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@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +DESCRIPTION +=========== +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 +=========== +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 +-------------- +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 +--------- +Compiling is done with the usual make-line + make && sudo make install |