mjhjmtu

I'd like to have a simple, calm status bar for Sway which I use with Arch Linux.

The configurations I found use a separate program like i3status but I'd like to keep it simple and use status_command mentioned in man sway-bar directly.

I have this script at ~/.config/sway/status.sh:

# The Sway configuration file in ~/.config/sway/config calls this script.
# You should see changes to the status bar after saving this script.
# If not, do "killall swaybar" and $mod+Shift+c to reload the configuration.

# Produces "21 days", for example
uptime_formatted=$(uptime | cut -d ',' -f1 | cut -d ' ' -f4,5)

# The abbreviated weekday (e.g., "Sat"), followed by the ISO-formatted date
# like 2018-10-06 and the time (e.g., 14:01)
date_formatted=$(date "+%a %F %H:%M")

# Get the Linux version but remove the "-1-ARCH" part
linux_version=$(uname -r | cut -d '-' -f1)

# Returns the battery status: "Full", "Discharging", or "Charging".
battery_status=$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status)

# Emojis and characters for the status bar
# 💎 💻 💡 🔌 ⚡ 📁 |
echo $uptime_formatted ↑ $linux_version 🐧 $battery_status 🔋 $date_formatted

The part in ~/.config/sway/config that defines the status bar is this:

bar 
 position top
 # Keep in mind that the current directory of this config file is $HOME
 status_command while ~/.config/sway/status.sh; do sleep 1; done

 colors 
 # Text color of status bar
 statusline #ffffff
 # Background of status bar
 background #323232
 
 font pango:DejaVu Sans Mono 10

 height 20

The result of that configuration: