Changed lots of things, too lazy to comment it all.

i3/i3/scripts/genconfig.bash

@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ CONF_DIR="$HOME/.i3/config.d"
 # file that should be used when no host specific configuration present
 DEFAULT_CONF="$CONF_DIR/default"
 
+LOGFILE="$LOGDIR/i3/genconfig.log"
+
+mkdir -p "$(dirname $LOGFILE)"
+
+log() {
+    echo "[$(date +%FT%T)] $*" >> "$LOGFILE"
+}
+
 host="$(hostname)"
 
 host_specific_conf="$CONF_DIR/$host.config"
@@ -19,15 +27,19 @@ host_specific_conf="$CONF_DIR/$host.config"
 if [[ ! -f "$host_specific_conf" ]] && [[ ! -f "$DEFAULT_CONF" ]]; then
     # if there is no host-specific configuration and no default one, just use
     # the main config
+    log "neither config for host $host nor default config at $DEFAULT_CONF found, using main only"
     ln -sf "$MAIN_CONF" "$SESSION_CONF"
 else
     # either use the host specific config if present, or the default if not
     if [[ -f "$host_specific_conf" ]]; then
+        log "found config for host $host at $host_specific_conf"
         conf_to_use="$host_specific_conf"
     else
+        log "no config for host $host found, using default one"
         conf_to_use="$DEFAULT_CONF"
     fi
     cat "$MAIN_CONF" <(echo -e "\n###\n### host-specific configuration for host \"$host\"\n###\n") "$conf_to_use" > "$SESSION_CONF"
+    log "created session config at $SESSION_CONF"
 fi
 
 echo "$SESSION_CONF"
@@ -35,4 +47,7 @@ echo "$SESSION_CONF"
 # if we got any parameters, tell i3 to reload the config
 # so the script can be used both on startup without reload (as i3 is not even
 # running yet) and later when reloading
-[[ -n "$1" ]] && i3-msg reload
+if [[ -n "$1" ]] ; then
+    log "telling i3 to reload the config file"
+    i3-msg reload
+fi

i3/i3/scripts/i3exit.bash

@@ -2,16 +2,19 @@
 
 ### From http://www.archlinux.org/index.php/i3
 
-LOGFILE="$HOME/.i3/logs/i3exit.log"
+LOGFILE="$LOGDIR/i3/i3exit.log"
 LOGFILE_MAXSIZE=100000
 
 FALLBACK_COLOR=000000
 
+mkdir -p "$(dirname $LOGFILE)"
+touch "$LOGFILE"
+
 [[ $(stat -c%s "$LOGFILE") -gt $LOGFILE_MAXSIZE ]] && >$LOGFILE
 
 log()
 {
-    echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") $1" >> "$LOGFILE"
+    echo "[$(date +%FT%T)] $1" >> "$LOGFILE"
 }
 
 lock()

i3/i3/scripts/pa-volume.bash

@@ -8,7 +8,23 @@ getvol() {
 }
 
 setvol() {
-    pactl set-sink-volume $SINK $(( $1 * 65536 / 100 ))
+    if [[ $1 =~ [+-][0-9]+ ]] ; then
+        oldvol="$(getvol)"
+        echo "oldvol $oldvol"
+        delta="$(echo "$1" | cut -c 2-)"
+        echo "delta $delta"
+        if [[ "$(echo "$1" | cut -c 1)" == "+" ]] ; then
+            echo "+"
+            newvol=$(( $oldvol + $delta ))
+        else
+            echo "-"
+            newvol=$(( $oldvol - $delta ))
+        fi
+        echo "newvol $newvol"
+    else
+        newvol="$1"
+    fi
+    pactl set-sink-volume $SINK $(( $newvol * 65536 / 100 ))
 }
 
 ismuted() {
@@ -57,15 +73,19 @@ case "$1" in
         else
             setvol "$2"
         fi
+        hook="$3"
         ;;
     "mute")
         mute
+        hook="$2"
         ;;
     "unmute")
         unmute
+        hook="$2"
         ;;
     "mute-toggle")
         mute-toggle
+        hook="$2"
         ;;
     "is-muted")
         echo $(ismuted)
@@ -74,6 +94,11 @@ case "$1" in
         echo $(status)
         ;;
     *)
-        echo "wrong usage"
+        usage
         ;;
 esac
+
+if [[ -n "$hook" ]] ; then
+    echo "volume changed, executing hook: $hook"
+    $hook
+fi

i3/i3/scripts/status.d/battery.bash

@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@
 # creating nice output if you click on the status bar
 # what i done depends on the first paramter
 
-PATH_WARN_1="$HOME/.i3/logs/batwarn1"
-PATH_WARN_2="$HOME/.i3/logs/batwarn2"
+[[ ! -d "$LOGDIR/batwarn" ]] && mkdir -p "$LOGDIR/batwarn"
+
+PATH_WARN_1="$LOGDIR/batwarn/batwarn1"
+PATH_WARN_2="$LOGDIR/batwarn/batwarn2"
 
 THRESHOLD1=25
 THRESHOLD2=5
@@ -51,12 +53,12 @@ conky() {
         if threshold2 ; then
             if [[ ! -f "$PATH_WARN_2" ]] ; then
                 echo > "$PATH_WARN_2"
-                notify-send --icon dialog-warning "Battery below 5%"
+                notify-send --icon dialog-warning "Battery below ${THRESHOLD2}%"
             fi
         elif threshold1 ; then
             if [[ ! -f "$PATH_WARN_1" ]] ; then
                 echo > "$PATH_WARN_1"
-                notify-send --icon dialog-warning "Battery below 25%"
+                notify-send --icon dialog-warning "Battery below ${THRESHOLD1}%"
             fi
         fi
     fi

i3/i3/scripts/status.d/conky_pacman.bash

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 updates=$(pacman -Quq | wc -l)
-if [[ $updates == 0 ]] ; then
+if [[ $updates -eq 0 ]] ; then
     echo "no updates"
+elif [[ $updates -eq 1 ]] ; then
+    echo "1 update"
 else
     echo "$updates updates"
 fi

i3/i3/scripts/status.d/sysinfo.bash

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ echo "Temp:|$(sensors -u | grep "temp1_input" | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -d "." -f
 echo "Load:|$(uptime | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f 10 | tr -d ",")") | columnate
 echo ""
 echo "MEM:"
-echo "${memused}MB / ${memtotal}MB ($(( $memused * 100 / $memtotal ))% used)"
+echo "${memused}MB / ${memtotal}MB ($(( $memused * 100 / $memtotal ))%) used"
 echo ""
 echo "PROCS:"
 (echo "x x cpu% mem% x x x x x x command" ; ps aux | sort -nrk 3 | tr -s " " | cut -d " " -f -11 | uniq -uf 10 | head -10) | cut -d " " -f 3,4,11 |  column -t

i3/i3/scripts/status.d/wireless.bash

@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ rxtotal=$(echo "$vnstat_output" | grep "^totalrx;" | cut -d ";" -f 2)
 vnstat_created="$(date --date=@$(echo "$vnstat_output" | grep "^created;" | cut -d ";" -f 2) "$TIMEFORMAT")"
 vnstat_last_update="$(date --date=@$(echo "$vnstat_output" | grep "^updated;" | cut -d ";" -f 2) "$TIMEFORMAT")"
 
-echo "Interface $INTERFACE:"
+txhour=$(( $txhour / 1024 ))
+rxhour=$(( $rxhour / 1024 ))
+
+echo -e "Interface $INTERFACE:\n"
 (
 echo "IP:|$ip"
 echo "ESSID:|$essid"
@@ -39,17 +42,14 @@ echo "Quality:|$qual"
 echo "Signal level:|$lvl dBm"
 echo "Bitrate:|$rate Mb/s"
 ) | columnize
-echo ""
-echo "Usage:"
+echo -e "\nUsage:\n"
 (
-echo "Hourly up:|${txhour} KiB"
-echo "Hourly down:|${rxhour} KiB"
-echo "Daily up:|${txtoday} MiB"
-echo "Daily down:|${rxtoday} MiB"
-echo "Total up:|${txtotal} MiB"
-echo "Total down:|${rxtotal} MiB"
+echo "Hourly up:|${txhour}|MiB"
+echo "Hourly down:|${rxhour}|MiB"
+echo "Daily up:|${txtoday}|MiB"
+echo "Daily down:|${rxtoday}|MiB"
+echo "Total up:|${txtotal}|MiB"
+echo "Total down:|${rxtotal}|MiB"
 echo ""
-echo "Database created at:|$vnstat_created"
-echo "Last update at:|$vnstat_last_update"
 ) | columnize
-
+echo -e "\nLast update at: $vnstat_last_update"

i3/i3/scripts/update-status.bash

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-kill -SIGUSR1 $(cat $HOME/.i3/logs/conky.pid)
+echo "update" >> ~/test.log
+kill -SIGUSR1 $(cat $LOGDIR/i3/conky.pid)