example-config.json

{
    "_comment": "Any variable starts with '_' is a comment",

    "order": [
        "battery", "brightness", "volume", "memory_usage", "network_interface", "load", "time", "custom"
    ],

    "battery": {
        "format":
            "{has_battery:{per_battery_fmt_str:{is_full:Battery is Full}{is_charging:charging {capacity}%}{is_discharging:discharging {capacity}%}}}"
    },
    "memory_usage": {
        "format": "<Mem> Free {MemFree}/Total {MemTotal} <Swap> Free {SwapFree}/{SwapTotal}"
    },
    "brightness": {
        "format": "{has_multiple_backlight_devices:{backlight_device} }{brightness}"
    },
    "volume": {
        "format": "volume: {volume}%"
    },
    "load": {
        "format":
            "1m {loadavg_1m} kthreads:{running_kthreads_cnt}/{total_kthreads_cnt} {last_created_process_pid}"
    },
    "network_interface": {
        "format": "{is_connected:{per_interface_fmt_str:{name} {ipv4_addrs:1} {ipv6_addrs:1}}}",
        "short_format": "{is_connected:{per_interface_fmt_str:{name}}}",
        "update_interval": 20,
        "__update_interval__": [
            "Setting update_interval to 20 means it will be updated per 20sec by default",
            "if cmdline arg \"--interval\" is not specified"
        ]
    },
    "custom": {
        "update_callback": {
            "type": "python",
            "module_name": "inline_code",
            "code": "import sys\ncounter = 0\ndef handler():\n    global counter\n    counter += 1\n\ndef get_counter():\n    return counter",
            "function_name": "handler"
        },
        "do_print_callback": {
            "type": "python",
            "module_name": "inline_code2",
            "code": "from inline_code import get_counter\ndef handler():\n    return str(get_counter())",
            "function_name": "handler"
        }
    }
}