FreakSoftMaker / qobbar

A fast and easy status bar built in qt

qobbar

Dependencies

• libX11
• libXcomposite
• libXdamage
• libQt5X11Extras
• libQt5Widgets
• libQt5Gui
• libQt5Concurrent
• libQt5DBus
• libQt5Core
• libGL
• libpthread

Building from source

$ git clone https://github.com/zakariakov/qobbar.git
$ cd qobbar
$ qmake
$ make
$ sudo make install

Configuration

The configuration uses the NativeFormat CONF file format.

The default SystemScope paths "/etc/xdg/qobbar/qobbar.conf"

The default UserScope paths "$HOME/.config/qobbar/qobbar.conf"

to create user configuration

$ mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/qobbar"
$ cp /etc/xdg/qobbar/qobbar.conf $HOME/.config/qobbar

or create any configuration file in "$HOME/.config/qobbar"

the suffix ".conf" is obligatoire ex;"myconf.conf"

Running the app

"Usage: qobbar [OPTION]"
  "qobbar v: 0.1 "
  "OPTION:"
  " -h  --help                      Print this help."
  " -c  --config     <string>       config file name."
  "                                 ex: create file in $HOME/.config/qobbar/top-bar.conf "
  "                                 run \"qobbar -c top-bar\"  ."
  " -d  --debug                     Print debug in termminal."
  " -r  --right                     right-to-left layout direction."

to run the default configuration just run "qobbar".

or cp any configuration in the example folder to $HOME/.config/qobbar.

to run any configuration ex: top-bar.conf run "qobbar -c top-bar".

Available modules

  Panel         configured using this name 'Panel'.
  Pager         configured using this name 'Pager'.
  Taskbar       configured using this name 'Taskbar'.
  Statu         configured using any name ex: 'Cpu' 'Mem'.

Available token

Common

- Background			<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color<num>
- Foreground			<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color<num>
- Underline			<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color<num>
- Overline			<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color<num>
  			to get color from Xresource 
  			ex: 'Background=xrdb.background'
  			ex: 'Overline=xrdb.color5'

- Border			<int>     default=0
- Alpha				<int>     0-to-255 default=255
- FontName			<string>  default parent fontfamily
- FontSize			<int>     default parent font size
- FontBold			<bool>    default  window fontbold

Panel

- Top				<bool> panel top or bottom default=true
- BorderColor			<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color<num>
- BarLeft			<list> Ex:statu1,statu2
- BarCenter			<list> Ex:Time,Date
- BarRight			<list> Ex:Pager
- BarLeftSpacing		<int>  default=0
- BarRightSpacing		<int>  default=0
- BarCenterSpacing		<int>  default=0
- MarginLeft                    <int>  default=0
- MarginTop                     <int>  default=0
- MarginRight                   <int>  default=0
- MarginBottom                  <int>  default=0
- Systray			<bool>  default=false

-----padding has no effect in tilling i3wm -----
- PaddingBottom                 <int>  default=0
- PaddingLeft                   <int>  default=0
- PaddingRight                  <int>  default=0
- PaddingTop                    <int>  default=0

Pager and Taskbar

- ActiveBackground		<string>  default  window highlight
- ActiveAlpha 			<int>     0-to-255 default=255
- ActiveForeground		<string>  default  window highlightText
- ActiveUnderline		<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color
- ActiveOverline		<string>  color Hex or xrdb.color

Pager

- DesktopDesplay		<string>  "name" "index" "icon" default=index
  			icon-[0-9]  ex: home,office,multimedia,
  			NOTE: The desktop name needs to match the name configured by the WM
  			You can get a list of the defined desktops using:
  			$ xprop -root _NET_DESKTOP_NAMES

- IconsList			<list> list of icon 0 to 9
- ActiveIcon                    <string> if DesktopDesplay==icon default=NULL

Status

- Command			<string>  Command to desplay
- Interval			<int>     second default 1
- MaxSize			<int>     default 100
- Label				<string>  
- Suffix			<string>  
- Prefix			<string>  
- ClickLeft			<string>   Command to exec
- ClickRight			<string>   Command to exec
- MouseWheelUp			<string>   Command to exec
- MouseWheelDown		<string>   Command to exec

Example

  [Panel]
  BarLeft=Button,Pager
  BarCenter=Taskbar
  BarRight=Cpu,Time
  Top=true
  Background=#000000
  ;Foreground=xrdb.foreground
  Alpha=150
  Systray=true
  
  [Pager]
  #ActiveBackground=#ffffff
  ActiveForeground=#ffffff
  ActiveOverline=#ffff00
  DesktopDesplay="icon"
  IconsList=,,,,,,
  ActiveIcon=
  Foreground=#8A8383
  Border=1
  ActiveAlpha=0
  
  [Taskbar]
  ActiveForeground=#FFFFFF
  ActiveOverline=#1E90FF
  ActiveBackground=#ffffff
  ActiveAlpha=20
  Border=1

  [Time]
  Interval=12
  Command="date +%H:%M\--%d/%m/%y"
  Label="<span style=' color:#4BB94B;'> </span>"
  FontBold=true
  ClickLeft="zenity --calendar"

  [Cpu]
  ;Command=$HOME/.config/qobbar/blocks.sh 1
  Command=$HOME/.config/scripts/cpu_usage
  Interval=2
  Label= "<span style=' color:#FFFFFF ;'></span> "	
  Foreground=#FFFFFF
  Overline=#ED163D
  Border=1
  
  [Button]
  Label=
  ClickLeft= qobmenu
  Underline=#FF3A00
  ;Overline=#40BF4D
  Border=1
  Foreground=xrdb.foreground

NOTE : to use this qobmenu @zakariakov

or jgmenu (https://github.com/johanmalm/jgmenu)