statusinfo2 is a tiny CLI that prints the exact metrics you care about in one line, making it perfect for status bars, panels, and scripts. It focuses on fast, low-overhead reads from the system instead of heavy daemons or complex config files.

Use it when you want a lightweight way to surface real-time desktop health with a consistent, icon-first output.

• You pass one or more "gadgets" (metrics) as positional arguments
• Each gadget reads a small, local source (like /proc/meminfo or hwmon files)
• Results are formatted with an icon and joined into a single line

cargo install statusinfo2

Pass the gadgets you want to print as positional arguments:

statusinfo2 memory temperature

• thunderbird: reads unread count from ~/.local/share/tbunread/count
• memory: used memory percentage (from /proc/meminfo)
• temperature: max CPU temperature (from /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/temp*_input)

• --separator <n>: spaces between gadgets (default: 4)
• --space <n>: spaces between icon and data (default: 2)

Example with tighter spacing:

statusinfo2 --separator 2 --space 1 memory temperature