amar1729/nerdbar.widget

A nerdbar widget (loosely based off herbischoff's) for use with yabai/chunkwm/kwm.

zenbar

maintenance

This is a side project of mine, so it may not have everything to suit your needs. Some other neat bars for macOS:

• https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
• https://github.com/apierz/chunkbar.widget
• https://github.com/blaadje/fancyBar
• https://github.com/zzzeyez/Pecan
• https://github.com/ahmadassaf/gaudiBar.widget (this one is also a helpful resource for extensible uebersicht widgets)

zenbar widget

• Works with both kwm and chunkwm
• Dynamically changing colors (based on wrapper script around pywal)
• Displays bsp/float/[n/m] (monocle mode)
• List of spaces, with active one highlighted with color
• Name of focused window
• Currently-playing song won't work since Firefox extensions can't write to filesystem anymore
• cpu/mem info
• Battery percentage remaining (including whether it's charging)
• Date and time

Space 1 or 2:

Difference between charging and not charging:

Dynamic Color Changing

This works by caching a colors.sh file as colors_<desktopID>.sh for each different desktop.
The easiest way to do this is using my scripts wp and unique_space.sh. They are meant to be copied into your ~/.bin/ and called manually as a replacement for pywal when you want to change your wallpaper. See wp -h for usage.
Each desktop has its own cached file, and theme.coffee and focused-window.coffee load from it every 1s.

My Changes

• Changed the kwm/chunkwm active space information to a color box rather than parentheses (see screens)
• Added dynamic color loading/changing (for use with pywal, themer, etc)
• Added bolt symbol near battery to indicate when charging (font-awesome currently (Jan 2017) has no charging battery symbol) - see screenshots
• Changed font to monospace and increased the size in certain areas for important text
• Modified widget spacing

Previous Work (as of 03/20/17)

• Herrbischoff's original nerdbar, inspired by koekeishiya's NerdTool configuration
• koekeishiya's modified nerdbar (kwm/khd author)
  • added active-space widget
  • added support for font-awesome icons
  • improved querying to kwmc
  • fixed now playing: playing.coffee, which uses Firefox plugin CurrentSong to also display the currently-playing song in the bar
• deathbeam's modified nerdbar, which made the following additions:
  • modifed focused-window to include current/total spaces (very helpful)
  • ellipsis cutoff if focused-window title is too long

Installation

Make sure you have Übersicht installed, and then clone this repository.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you name the resulting folder amar-bar.widget, or change the image paths in background.coffee and focused-window.coffee, since they source css and scripts (respectively) starting with the parent directory's name.

# or wherever your ubersicht looks for widgets (mine looks in ~/.config/ubersicht/widgets/)
git clone https://github.com/Amar1729/nerdbar.widget $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/amar-bar.widget

nerdbar.widget's Issues

Colors don't work properly on external monitors

Have to update switcher.sh so it loads proper colors on external monitors (this isn't helped much by wp not being able to set wallpapers on external monitors properly?)

add support for yabai

Update spaces.sh to work with yabai, since chunkwm has been deprecated by the author.

Make current song work with local media also

• An app called Bearded Spice allows Mac media keys to control lots of websites and applications. This might help to display the song or introduce media controls to the toolbar
• Possibly include a script for mpd songs

Spaces with chunkwm

Is it possible for the spaces feature to support chunkwm? I tried to edit spaces.sh etc to call on /usr/bin/local/chunkc instead of kwmc but that didn't work. I don't really know what I'm doing so past that I don't have any other ideas.

What is this file?

Please provide a real file at this link:

Make current space look better

Want to eventually make the current space be identified with slight shading (as opposed to surrounding parentheses) similar to lots of the polybar setups I've been seeing recently.

This requires messing with the padding of the string returned from spaces.sh and figuring out the best way to have a focused-space.coffee assign an overlay coloring, since spaces.sh currently returns the space mode and list of spaces.

Add pywal wrapper script

I have a wrapper script in my personal binfiles I used for pywal. It's this script and one other that handle colorscheme caching to allow per-desktop themes.

Have to add this to readme/to scripts dir?