Window manager widgets¶
Awesome widget¶
Note
Powerline currently only supports awesome 3.5.
Note
The Powerline widget will spawn a shell script that runs in the
background and updates the statusline with awesome-client
.
Add the following to rc.lua
, where {repository_root}
is the absolute
path to Powerline installation directory (see repository root):
package.path = package.path .. ';{repository_root}/powerline/bindings/awesome/?.lua'
require('powerline')
Then add the powerline_widget
to wibox
:
right_layout:add(powerline_widget)
Qtile widget¶
Add the following to ~/.config/qtile/config.py
:
from libqtile.bar import Bar
from libqtile.config import Screen
from libqtile.widget import Spacer
from powerline.bindings.qtile.widget import PowerlineTextBox
screens = [
Screen(
top=Bar([
PowerlineTextBox(update_interval=2, side='left'),
Spacer(),
PowerlineTextBox(update_interval=2, side='right'),
],
35 # width
),
),
]
bar-aint-recursive¶
To run the bar simply pipe the output of the binding script into bar
and
specify appropriate options, for example like this:
python /path/to/powerline/bindings/bar/powerline-bar.py | bar
to run with i3, simply exec
this in i3 config file:
exec python /path/to/powerline/bindings/bar/powerline-bar.py --i3 | bar
Running the binding in i3-mode will require i3ipc (or the outdated i3-py).
See the bar documentation for more information and options.
I3 bar¶
Note
As the patch to include background-colors in i3bar is likely not to be
merged, it is recommended to instead run bar
(see above). The source for
i3bgbar is however still available here.
Add the following to ~/.i3/config
:
bar {
i3bar_command i3bgbar
status_command python /path/to/powerline/bindings/i3/powerline-i3.py
font pango:PowerlineFont 12
}
where i3bgbar
may be replaced with the path to the custom i3bar binary and
PowerlineFont
is any system font with powerline support.