gost

A JSON feeder for i3bar/swaybar

Installation

TBD...

Configuration

The application is configured via a file in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/gost/config.yml (usually $HOME/.config/gost/config.yml).

config.yml:

version: "1"

theme:
  hue: 0.7
  saturation: 0.7

separator_width: 16

blocks:
  - name: foo_block
    config_option_1: bar_value
    config_option_2:
      - baz_value

sway/config (or i3/config):

bar {
  status_command gost
  # ...
}

You can grab the example config from doc/example-config.yml:

$ curl -sL -o "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/gost/config.yml" \
    https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kraftwerk28/gost/master/doc/example-config.yml

Blocklets

battery

Display battery charge level. Requires UPower to work over DBus upower_device can be obtained via DBus using the following command:

$ busctl --json=pretty --system call org.freedesktop.UPower \
  /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower \
  EnumerateDevices \
  | jq -r '.data[0] | map(match("[^/]+$").string)[]'`

If empty, the program will try to detect battery device.

Option	Type	Description
format	ConfigFormat
upower_device	string	Device name. See above.
urgent_level	int

bluez

Displays connected bluetooth devices

Option	Type	Description
mac	string	Mac address of the device
format	ConfigFormat
device_format	ConfigFormat	Device format

clickcount

Option	Type	Description
format	ConfigFormat

dbus

Option	Type	Description
object_path	string
initial_text	string

lua

Option	Type	Description
script	string

mpris

Option	Type	Description
player_format	ConfigFormat
separator	string

network_manager

Option	Type	Description
format	ConfigFormat
ap_format	ConfigFormat
primary_only	bool

pulse

Option	Type	Description
node	string
format	ConfigFormat
icons	PulseIconsConfig

shell

Displays output for a shell script It has three modes:

• run script every N seconds, wait for it to exit
• run script once, read lines from it's stdout and update the blocklet per each line
• run script in a loop as soon as it exits

Option	Type	Description
command	string	Shell command to run
on_click	string	Shell command to run when a blocklet is clicked
interval	ConfigInterval
restart_on_exit	bool
json	bool	Treat command's output as json instead of plain text

sway_layout

Displays current keyboard layout. Uses sway's IPC API for retrieving the info (i.e. won't work with i3wm)

Option	Type	Description
format	ConfigFormat
input	string

sway_window

No config fields.

time

Option	Type	Description
format	ConfigFormat
layout	string
interval	ConfigInterval

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This project is inspired by i3status-rust and i3blocks