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A fast polybar script that shows opened windows on your current display. Click on window titles to switch between windows.
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jiriklepl/light-polybar-windows
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APolybar script forked frompolybar-windows with additional features.
- 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.
For a very limited multihead implementation, check out themultihead branch.
The following variables at the top of the file may be customized:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
active_text_color="#250F0B" | The color of the name of the active window. |
active_underline="true" | Whether to underline the active window. |
active_underline_color="#E7A09E" | The color of the active window underline. |
inactive_text_color="#503631" | The color of the name of inactive windows. |
inactive_underline="false" | Whether to underline inactive windows. |
inactive_underline_color="#F1EF7D" | The color of inactive window underline. |
separator="·" | Character displayed between window names. |
display="window_class" | Choose whether to display window_title, window_class or window_classname. |
case="normal" | Options: normal, upper, lower. |
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. |
char_limit=20 | Maximum window name length after which it will be truncated. |
resize_increment=30 | Size in pixel of resizing steps for the mouse wheel functions. |
wm_border_width=0 | Setting this variable might make resizing positions more accurate. |
- 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. - Save
polywins.awk, for example to~/.config/polybar/scripts. - Make the awk script executable with
chmod +x ~/.config/polybar/scripts/polywins.awk. - Change any setting you wish at the top of the script.
- Add the following module to your polybar config:
[module/polywins]type = custom/scriptexec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/polywins.sh 2>/dev/nulllabel-padding = 1tail = true
- Add the module to one of your bars, for example like so:
[bar/your_bar_name]modules-center = polywins
xpropwmctrl