okaydave/barr

Barr is a status line style generator for LemonBar

barr's Issues

Clicking i3 block will not select the workspace

However, it does print this to the terminal:

barr_i3ipc workspace -1

Somewhat related, a general "onClick" hook would be awesome to have.

Suggestion: System Tray

For me, as an i3 user, it would be very comfortable to have an integrated system tray like in the default i3bar. This could also be implemented as a block to customize the postition of it for example.

i3 block throws "Broken pipe" after i3 reload

Not sure if this is easily fixable, but when i3 is reloaded, the i3 block will fail to update as the terminal output will be "Broken pipe" every time a draw update is triggered.

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Bspwm block not marking current desktop

I've just installed barr and I can't get the thing to mark the current desktop neither inverting focus colors, nor setting markers. I've never coded in ruby before, so I have no idea how to check where the problem might be (I've tried reading the source code from the bspwm block, but felt a bit like chinese to me).

Don't know what info. could be useful, but I'm using Debian 8 with xfce and bspwm, the lemonbar isn't patched for xft.

Suggestion: Multiple monitor support

The main thing keeping me from using Barr is the current lack of multiple monitor support (unless I am missing something). This can be achieved with the following formatting attribute from Lemonbar:

Sdir
Change the monitor the bar is rendered to. dir can be either

+/-
Next/previous monitor.

f/l
First/last monitor.

0-9
Nth monitor.

Suggestion: AUR Package (Arch Linux)

It would be great if you could create a PKGBUILD and submit it to the AUR.

I save my installed Arch packages to a file as backup and for an easy rebuild of my system. I do this for official and AUR packages. I think I'm not the only Arch user, that does something like this.
I'm not planing to do this for gem, npm and whatnot. Today there are just to many different "package installers".
As most of the lemaonbar/i3/bspwm users are Arch users, this would be beneficial to a lot of people I think.

Building an PKGBUILD is relatively simple.(https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD)
Here is a little script, that does everything for you: https://github.com/anatol/gem2arch

(I would do it my self, but I figured, that you may want the AUR package under your control.)

time_and_date.rb

Thank you for this gem. It is exactly what I was looking for.
There is a problem in a few of the example scripts

line #9 of time_and_date.rb should be

date = Barr::Blocks::Clock.new format: '%d of %b %Y', bgcolor: '#570B7A', fgcolor: '#FFFFFF', align: :r, icon: "\uf073"

you had %m instead of %d

The bspwm example doesn't work at all, I am not sure why. That is what I use so I am somewhat motivated to help fix it but I am not sure if my ruby is good enough

Suggestion: bspwm support

I love this project, but I think it would be very helpful to a lot of people if support for BSPWM workspaces was implemented. It shouldn't be too much different from i3, and there's references to the appropriate commands here. Thanks!

interval faster than 1sec

Is there any way to have an interval shorter than 1 sec? You mentioned in the documentation that the bar refreshes every second.

i3 bugs (?)

Hey i'm using i3wm, but the I3 module of barr isn't working that well
Is there a way i can put an instant refresh interval ? 1 second is pretty slow
Also, can I change the color of the current workspace ? One colour is not very understandable

And, also, the mpd module isn't working at, it says
"barr.rb:22:in main: uninitialized constant Barr::Blocks::MPD (NameError)"

Error with i3wm

Getting an Error when trying to click on a workspace.

sh: Line 1: barr_i3ipc: Command not found.

Tried installing ruby-i3ipc, but no changes

Suggestion : applets (is that called so ?)

Is there, or will there be, a way to handle applets ? Like nm-applet for the network, or the one for the sound, or pamac-tray for arch

i3 workspace manager with named workspaces

Clicking on named workspace indicator changes workspace to one with number only, effectively creating a new workspace without a modified name.

support for multiple monitors

i changed part of the update! function to support my multimonitor setup. not sure if this would be helpful to you.

def desktops
  op = []
  bsp_tree["monitors"].each do |monitor|
    focused = monitor["focusedDesktopId"]
    op << " " + monitor["name"] + ":"
    monitor["desktops"].each do |desktop|
      if desktop["id"] == focused and monitor["id"] == bsp_tree["focusedMonitorId"]
        op << focused_desktop(desktop)
      else
        op << unfocused_desktop(desktop)
      end
    end
  end
  op
end

won't work [help]

It looks like lemonbar has some problems executing a non-.sh file or I can't make it work properly