It turns out that showing the window title is very useful for actually
using the window manager, especially with no visual indicator through
window borders to determine which one is selected.
Realistically, you use a window manager to take up all the available
space on a screen. Borders and gaps are counter-intuitive in this
regard.
Since polybar has a module that shows the title of the focused window,
using a border width even in gapless mode is no longer necessary. This
also works conveniently well with bspwm's monocle desktop layout, which
will also inherit the no-border no-gaps methodology and take up all the
available screen space.
It turns out that polybar is able to provide very useful information for
window management in bspwm, so much so that disabling the bar completely
wouldn't make sense.
Since there's already a way to hide the bar (with a sxhkd keybind), and
since a "no bar" option would break this functionality even though the
hidden bar keybind produces the same result, it makes sense to remove
this.
Now that I know how to use terminal multiplexers, and now that I
understand more about how shells and terminals work, the launch
dependency is no longer necessary.
Additionally, *too many* abbreviations is difficult to use in the long
term, no matter how short the commands are. Since I don't need to launch
programs from the terminal as often anymore (now that I use rofi and
other programs), this change makes sense.
This commit adds full variable DPI support to polybar. This means that
it is possible to use the same polybar setup on both a traditional and
HiDPI display.
Additionally, font size has been slightly adjusted since polybar does
not support decimal font sizes. Some other numbers have also been
changed.
It turns out that placing similar config files (i.e. bspwm-related) in
the same directory is not the way to go about handling dotfiles since
each config file (or dotfile) *should* manipulate only a single program.
This was not the case back when I used urxvt (which would require the
old method of .Xresources), but now that I understand more about how
*modern* dotfiles work (with $XDG_CONFIG_HOME), separating dotfiles by
program became the obvious choice.
There are many dotfiles that we don't have to worry about when using a
desktop environment like Plasma or Xfce. These dotfiles are bspwm
specific and should all be stowed at the same time when stowing bspwm.
This commit adds a "secondary" bar type, which takes up the entire
available space horizontally. Alternatively, use the main bar if you
want to go for a floating appearance instead.
polybar:
- Properly referenced all the xrdb colors
- Decreased the height of the bar to 85 while floating
- Made the border color translucent
- Added line-size (gives line emphasis to modules)
bspwm:
- Decreased window_gap (aka increased the working space)
- Added presel_feedback_color (used when selecting where to open
new windows)
sxhkd:
- Added super + shift + return to start a new tmux session
- Updated polybar show / hide with new top_padding value
- Added keybind for the private flag
This commit makes polybar float instead of just cover the top portion of
the screen. In the future, it may be useful to easily change between
these designs, likely using separate bars for each layout.
This commit also adds a way to highlight and / or underline the
different modules.
