SuperMMX / awesome-tray

Hide mode-line, display necessary information at right of minibuffer.

What's this?

I don't like the mode-line, it's too high and affect me to read the code. With Emacs, we only need to focus on very little information, such as time, current mode, git branch. Excessive information can seriously interfere with our attention.

Installation

Clone this repository

$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/manateelazycat/awesome-tray.git

Then put awesome-tray.el to your load-path.

The load-path is usually ~/elisp/. It's set in your ~/.emacs like this:

(add-to-list `load-path (expand-file-name "~/elisp"))
(require 'awesome-tray)
(awesome-tray-mode 1)

Customize Mode line.

• awesome-tray-mode-line-active-color: Use for customize active color.
• awesome-tray-mode-line-inactive-color: Use for customize inactive color.
• awesome-tray-mode-line-height: Mode line height, default is 0.1
• awesome-tray-date-format: Use to customize the date string format.
• awesome-tray-mpd-format: Use to customize the mpd string format, see the variable docstring for details.
• awesome-tray-git-format: Use to customize the git string format.
• awesome-tray-git-show-status: If non-nil, show current file status on the git module.
• awesome-tray-ellipsis: Use to customize the ellipses used when truncating.
• awesome-tray-separator: Use to customize the separator between modules.

Customize Module

You can control modules through option awesome-tray-active-modules.

When removing the git module load the awesome-tray-mode after setting the modules to prevent useless hooks

You can find all modules name in the keys of variable awesome-tray-module-alist. Currently we have:

• awesome-tab: Show group information of awesome-tab.
• buffer-name: Show buffer name.
• circe: Show circe tracking buffer information.
• date: Show current date.
• evil: Show evil state.
• file-path: Show file path with full customizability. When the path is long, it can be shrinked into something like .../.em/el/awesome-tray/awesome-tray.el. See awesome-tray-file-path-*** variables for details.
• git: Show git information.
• last-command: Show last execute command.
• location: Show point position in buffer.
• parent-dir: Show direct parent directory.
• mode-name: Show major mode name.
• rvm: Show Ruby version information given by rvm-prompt.
• battery: Show battery status.
• input-method: Show input method status.
• buffer-read-only: Show read only status.
• belong: Show which class/function status, need install tree-sitter first.
• org-pomodoro: Show org-pomodoro status. Denote the rest time of pomodoro by [.], short break by (.) and long break by {.}.
• pdf-view-page: Show page number in pdf-view-mode.
• flymake: Show Flymake state.
• mpd: Show mpd information using libmpdel, you need to connect to a mpd profile, use (libmpdel-connect-profile (libmpdel--select-profile)) unless you have multiple profiles.
• volume: Show current volume using amixer.

Create a Module

Let's create a module that says hello to you. With a module you need:

• A name. Let's simply call it "hello".

• A info function that returns the string to be displayed. Here's a simple one

  (defun my-module-hello-info ()
    (concat "Hello " (user-login-name) "!"))

  A complex info function may encounter an error, awesome-tray will handle this and not show any information there.

• a face. Let's use a simple yet elegant italic style:

  (defface my-module-hello-face
    '((t (:italic t)))
    "Hello module face."
    :group 'awesome-tray)

• Awesome-tray uses awesome-tray-module-alist to find informations about a module. Let's put ours in it:

  (add-to-list 'awesome-tray-module-alist
             '("hello" . (my-module-hello-info my-module-hello-face)))

• Now put "hello" in the awesome-tray-active-modules list, and you will see awesome-tray say hello to you!

If you created a module that could be useful to others, please consider contributing it to awesome-tray!