Customizing i3Blocks For the Ultimate Status Bar on i3WM

Today I show you How to Customize i3blocks in i3 Window Manager.
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i3blocks - github.com/vivien/i3blocks
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==== Time Stamps ====
0:00 Intro
1:51 Installation
5:45 Applying i3blocks
7:25 Getting the Config Example and the Scripts
9:45 Setting SCRIPT_DIR Variable
11:18 Customizing i3blocks
20:38 Matt Being An Idiot for 3 Minutes
23:58 Dealing With Intervals
24:58 Unixporn for Inspiration and Further Tips
26:00 Conclusions
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[@pgMacmillion]

As an i3 user I'm very grateful for this great tutorial 🙌🏼

[@MENTOKz]

great video matt and keeping the troubleshooting in is very good for newbies to see the process.

[@busterbrown8830]

another great video! Your videos allowed me to use I3wm. Keep them coming!!

[@heioca9556]

Awesome tutorial man! 🤘

[@joaorsamouco]

Hey Matt! Thank you for the video. Just to let you know that you don't have to add the command to every block. Just change the global command from command=$SCRIPT_DIR/$BLOCK_NAME to command=$SCRIPT_DIR/$BLOCK_NAME/$BLOCK_NAME and everything should work 👍

[@Degist]

thank you! its really helpfull :P

[@maybematty]

Pretty late to this video but just wanted to let you know this helped a ton 👍 got my i3blocks working in no time.

[@gonzalooviedo5435]

Man, you are awesome, your dedication to linux and i3 is very useful, thank you very much for your time

[@laka0013]

Awesome! Thank you very much for the tutorial!

[@user-lx4lr1vs7m]

Good job bro, great stuff.

[@A_G420]

Holy shit, you explained things so well. Thanks

[@soosmate]

Thanks! Love your work :)

[@TheLinuxCast]

Thank you!

[@cultist7931]

very cool video! :3

[@addisonm.2685]

U are the goat 🔥

[@bstar777777]

Regarding adding the icons to the bar, if you want a calendar icon for date and a clock icon for time, you should be able to embed them in the date/time string.

[@kayette6510]

This looks really good and I've managed to follow along a bit. I can't seem to get the battery to show at all. Edit: Solved this problem. I was missing the acpi package. Works great now! I'm a bit new to this all...

[@Little-bird-told-me]

6:18 _These are one liners which makes my day. ROFL_

[@HeCodes2Much]

I have been a i3 user since 2009 and 2022 was the year I moved over to something I can edit the source better aka qtile and I'm really liking it and I made it work alot like i3 anyways other then the layouts :) even my groups act like i3 does

[@opkp]

man you sure are great

[@nathanruben3372]

I have been using i3wm about a year. I have heavily invested on it, however I still can not content with it because I have never understood how it really places the windows in a workspace. I listened 11 years old video on youtube, I read the documentation about tree structure, but still I have difficulty placing the windows as the way I want or change the current layout as the way I want. It will be great if you can create a tutorial i3wm tree structure and how to shift, change workspace layouts. Thanks in advance.

[@chrisrgutierrez]

Is it possible to add anyone on the left side of the panel?

[@YrmiZ]

I really like i3blocks because it is so minimal and super easy to configure.

[@puppy_BYTE]

very good, how do I launch tint2 when i3 boot in ~/.config/i3/config file?

[@masteringlife404]

Fking hell .. I LOVE THIS \@_@/!!! AWESOME VIDEO!!

[@laniusdev]

Ok, I just realized a stupid mistake I was making in my i3blocks config, and now I need to rewrite them all. Again. I didn't know, or realize I could just disable the separator... AAAaaa!!!

[@kztuptuo7076]

Great tutorial yet now i know that tilling WM are not for me to much of a hassle. I use open-box BDW ;) Have a great day

[@halamadrid5238]

Could you do a video on how to write good commit messages?

[@guitart]

I use Nano cos I'm a Barbarian! 🤣

[@Perry....]

Unironically? When Micro exists? 🤢 🤮

[@zoltan1953]

“I’m not a babarian. Anyways. Haha. Your eliteiis-ism’s showing, Matt”. -Matt the Barbarian 😂

[@milohoffman274]

Manual tiler, yuck.

[@thingsiplay]

There are extensions to make i3 automatic tiling.

[@Perry....]

Ignorant comment, yuck.

[@stephenwilson0386]

If you're like most people and have 2-3 windows tops on a workspace, it works perfectly fine, and still works great with more. These days you can even hold the Mod key and left or right click to move/resize windows respectively, if moving windows around is cumbersome. Also, any demo of a dynamic tiler (Awesome, QTile, etc) I've ever seen has the guy showing how he moves windows around and resizes manually, so how is that much different from placing them where you want to begin with? You would know from the video title that he's going to be talking about i3, so did you just come here to troll and hate on it? Don't be a douche because someone else has different preferences than you.

[@themroc8231]

I actually believe that for first time tiling WM users Spectrwm > I3wm.