dumbw

dumbw

A super simple and dumb bandwidth monitor to integrate with the wonderful i3.

Tiny daemon which calculates an impossibly simplistic network usage rate for interfaces on the system.

• Run a daemon by invoking dumbw the first time (daemons are tied to a user)
• Run a client with dumbw when a daemon is already running
• Invoke as i3status-dumbw to chain with i3status - e.g.:

$ egrep -A4 ^bar ~/.i3/config 
bar {
	status_command i3status | i3status-dumbw eth0
	position top
	tray_output primary
}

TODO:

• make i3status wrapper more robust in the case of client failure
• either move to a dbus API, or just run dumbw directly instead of wrapping it; probably just overcomplicated to have a separate daemon