diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index da3eca7..9b8b35b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,3 +49,14 @@ In no particular order:
     * using a self-made WIP Solarized based [colorscheme](./configs/nvim/lua/malo/theme.lua) with Neovim; and
     * a [Fish shell config](./home/fish.nix), which provides a `toggle-background` function (and an alias `tb`) which toggles a universal environment variable (`$term_background`) between the values `"light"` and `"dark"`, along with `set-shell-colors` function which trigger automatically when `$term_background` changes.
 * A nice [shell prompt config](./home/starship.nix) for Fish using Starship.
+
+
+
+
+
+# i3wm example configs:
+
+https://github.com/srid/nix-config/blob/705a70c094da53aa50cf560179b973529617eb31/nix/home/i3.nix
+
+https://nixos.wiki/wiki/i3
+https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-programs.i3status-rust.enable
diff --git a/home-manager/home.nix b/home-manager/home.nix
index 9a6d34f..88ee5c6 100644
--- a/home-manager/home.nix
+++ b/home-manager/home.nix
@@ -6,11 +6,45 @@ let
 
 in 
 {
+programs.i3status-rust = {
+    enable = true;
+    bars = {
+      top = {
+        blocks = [
+         {
+           block = "time";
+           #format = "%a %d/%m %k:%M %p";
+           interval = 1;
+           format = " $timestamp.datetime(f:'%Y.%m.%d %H:%M:%S') ";
+         }
+         {
+           block = "cpu";
+         }
+       ];
+      };
+    };
+  };
+
 
     # todo move to own file
     xsession.windowManager.i3 = {
         enable = true;
         config = {
+
+
+ bars = [
+        {
+
+          fonts = ["DejaVu Sans Mono, FontAwesome 15"];
+          position = "top";
+          statusCommand = "${pkgs.i3status-rust}/bin/i3status-rs ~/.config/i3status-rust/config-top.toml";
+        }
+      ];
+
+
+
+
+
             modifier = mod;
          keybindings = {
             # Focus
@@ -72,20 +106,16 @@ in
 
  "${mod}+u" = "exec --no-startup-id dmenu_run";
  
-# TODO 
 "${mod}+s" = "split h";
   "${mod}+y" = "split v";
   "${mod}+m" = "fullscreen";
 
-
   "${mod}+Shift+s" = "layout splith";
   "${mod}+Shift+y" = "layout splitv";
   "${mod}+Shift+b" = "layout stacking";
   "${mod}+Shift+comma" = "layout tabbed";
   "${mod}+space" = "floating toggle";
-  "${mod}+Shift+space" = "focus mode_toggle";
-
-
+  # TODO what is this?? "${mod}+Shift+space" = "focus mode_toggle";
 
         };
         };