Hey mort,

Thanks for sharing, it's easy to forget how many moving parts there are when you want something that can feel 'simple' on these systems. I like the trap wrapper for just passing in "reload" to your script.

For what it's worth I currently use i3block[1] as a statusbar manager, which has a configuration option for associating signals with 'blocks' to do a refresh -- I wonder how many of these "status bar managers" support interrupts like this

[1] https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks