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firmware_

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Registered: 2025-02-02

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i3wm bar refresh rate is 5 seconds. How to refresh faster?

Good day,

I am currently on Arch Linux with the i3 window manager.  I successfully configurated it to my needs for the most part but displayed time and connection strength indicators (everything else too) in the bar only refreshes every 5 seconds on my system.

I have used search engines for a while trying to find the correct parameter to set in the ~/.config/i3/config file and have yet to find an answer.

Has anyone knowledgeful enough on i3wm been through this before?

i.e: Time is currently displayed as such :

12:55:30
12:55:35
12:55:40

desired output would be :

12:55:30
12:55:31
12:55:32

Ideally, this refresh rate would affect the entire bar at once, thus affecting memory usage, disk space, connection strength, time, etc.

Thanks.

Edit : I am using the default bar from the archinstall script with a few transparency and color settings.

Last edited by firmware_ (2025-02-02 18:05:02)

firmware_

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Registered: 2025-02-02

Posts: 3

Re: i3wm bar refresh rate is 5 seconds. How to refresh faster?

The answer to my question was not found in the ~/.config/i3/config it was instead found in /etc/i3status.conf

On my system " interval " setting was set to 5 instead of 1. This setting affects the entire bar and not only the seconds displayed in the time section.

general {
        colors = true
        interval = 5         ### this was set to 1 to fix this issue.
}

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: i3wm bar refresh rate is 5 seconds. How to refresh faster?

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Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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