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Script: polywins
A Polybar script forked from polybar-windows with additional features. (Requires EWMH-compliancy)
- Left click: Focus window and raise it if it is minimized. If the window is already focused, minimize it.
- Middle click: Close the window.
- Right click: Select a rectangle for the window to be re-positioned to.
- Mouse wheel: Resize the window incrementally.
<sub>For a very limited multihead implementation, check out the multihead branch.</sub>
Configuration
The following variables at the top of the file may be customized:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
active_text_color="#250F0B" | Color of the name of the active window. |
active_bg= | Background colour of active window. Leave empty if unwanted. |
active_underline="#ECB3B2" | Underline colour of active window. Leave empty if unwanted. |
inactive_text_color="#250F0B" | Color of the name of inactive windows. |
inactive_bg= | Background colour of inactive windows. Leave empty if unwanted. |
inactive_underline= | Underline colour of inactive windows. Leave empty if unwanted. |
separator="·" | String displayed between window names. |
show="window_class" | Whether to display window_title, window_class or window_classname. |
forbidden_classes="Polybar Conky Gmrun" | Window classes that you do not wish to appear in the window list. |
empty_desktop_message="Desktop" | String to display if no window is open. |
case="normal" | normal, upper, lower. |
char_limit=20 | Maximum window name length after which it will be truncated. |
max_windows=15 | Maximum number of displayed windows. Useful if you have limited space. Will show how many windows are hidden. (e.g. +3) |
add_spaces="true" | Whether to add a space to the side of each window name. |
resize_increment=16 | Size in pixel of resizing steps for the mouse wheel functions. |
wm_border_width=1 | Setting this variable might make resizing positions more accurate. |
Installing
- Install
wmctrl, it should be packaged by most distros. For example on Ubuntu and Debian-based distros,sudo apt install wmctrl - Save
polywins.sh, for example to~/.config/polybar/scripts - Make the script executable with
chmod +x ~/.config/polybar/scripts/polywins.sh - Change any setting you wish at the top of the script
- Add the following module to your polybar config:
[module/polywins]
type = custom/script
exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/polywins.sh 2>/dev/null
format = <label>
label = %output%
label-padding = 1
tail = true
- Add the module to one of your bars, and don't forget to set a line-size if you intend to use underline, for example like so:
[bar/your_bar_name]
modules-center = polywins
line-size = 2
Dependencies
xpropwmctrlslopfor rectangle-resizing