New Blocks and Features
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New Network Manager block (#641 by @kennylevinsen). This block existed previously but was undocumented until it was overhauled completely by @kennylevinsen)
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New Taskwarrior block (#600 by @flying7eleven)
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Keyboard Layout block now supports
sway(#670 by @ammgws), and also has a newformatconfig option (#593 by @thiagokokada) -
IBus block now allows mapping of displayed engine to user configured value (#576 by @ammgws)
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Weather block now supports
humidityandapparent(Australian Apparent Temperature) format specifiers (#640 by @ryanswilson59, @ammgws). Location can now also be set by name rather than ID using the newplaceoption (#635 by @ammgws). Alternatively, the location can be guessed from your current IP address (#690 by @ammgws) -
Focused Window block new
show_marksoption to show marks instead of title (#532 by @ammgws) -
Net and Speedtest blocks now take
speed_min_unitandspeed_digitsparameters to format speeds (#704, #707 by @GladOSkar, @ammgws). -
Net block
ssidconfig option now supportsiwctlandwpa_cli(#625, #721 by @ammgws). Can now show bitrate for wired devices (#612 by @ammgws). Newipv6option (#647 by @ammgws) -
Pacman block now supports a
critical_updates_regexparameter to control block state (#613 by @PicoJr), and now supports AUR as well (#658 by @PicoJr) -
Music block has a new
smart_trimconfig option (#654 by @jgbyrne). Artist/title separator can now be customised with theseparatoroption (#655 by @ammgws) -
Sound block now supports a
formatparameter (#618 by @jedahan). Along with that a format qualifieroutput_namewas added which will show the name of the sink whose volume is being reported (#712 by @ammgws). ALSA driver: newdeviceandnatural_mappingoptions (#622 by @ammgws) -
CPU block now has
per_coresupport for{frequency},{utilization}(@grim7reaper) -
Block
intervalconfig can now take"once"in order to run blocks only one time (#684 by @PicoJr) -
Update font awesome icons to version 5 (#619 by @carloabelli)
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Add support for progress bars to some blocks (#578 by @carloabelli)
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Themes can now be read from standalone files (#611 by @atheriel & @PicoJr)
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New command line option
--never-pausewhich will ignore any attempts by i3 to pause the bar when hidden/full-screen (#701 by @ammgws) -
If no config file path is supplied then we default to XDG_CONFIG_HOME/i3status-rust
Bug Fixes and Improvements
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Net block fixed to support ppp vpn (#570 by @MiniGod). Device is now auto selected by default (#626 by @ammgws). Fixed error in
use_bitscalculation (#704 by @ammgws). Use /sys/class/net//carrier instead of operstate in is_up() (#605 by @happycoder97, @ammgws) -
Music block artist parsing from metadata fixed (#561 by @Riey)
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Fix panics for blocks without update intervals (#582 by @ammgws)
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Nvidia block: make threshold configurable, swap idle/good (#615 by @ammgws). Also fixed utilisation to have a fixed width (#566 by @TheJP)
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Backlight block now reads from actual_brightness as per kernel docs (#631 by @ammgws), with a special case for amdgpu backlights which don't follow the spec (#643 by @ammgws)
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Battery block now has a fallback for determining power consumption (#653 by @ammgws), and the time remaining is now only displayed when useful (#591 by @debugloop)
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Time block fixed to only register left mouse button clicks (#628 by @ammgws)
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Toggle block fixed to only toggle if command exited successfully (#648 by @ammgws)
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Fix missing icons for
bat_halfin the none theme (#719 by @varunkashyap) -
Fix panic in CPU block if >32 CPUs present (#639 @snicket2100)
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Fix panic in Memory block when wrong placeholder given (#616 by @ammgws)
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Fix missing
good_bgandgood_fgtheme overrides (#630 by @carloabelli) -
Unified handling of stdin and stdout to prevent broken pipe errors (#594 by @Celti)
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Travis CI will now run clippy for all features and targets (#682 by @rotty)
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Dependent crates have been updated to their latest versions (#729 by @ammgws, @ignatenkobrain)