Yabar is a modern and lightweight status bar that is intended to be used along with minimal X window managers like `bspwm` and `i3`. Yabar has the following features:
**Warning**: Yabar is still in its infancy and far from being mature. Feel free to contribute or report bugs!
## Terminology
A Yabar session should contain one or more *bars* within the same session. Each bar should contain one or more *blocks*. Each block should display some useful info to the user (free memory, CPU temperature, etc...).
Yabar requires libconfig, cairo, xcb-ewmh (or xcb-util-wm in some distros) and pango. These dependencies can be installed through your distribution's package manager, such as `dnf install libconfig-devel cairo-devel pango-devel` on Fedora or `sudo apt-get install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libconfig-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev` on Ubuntu.
Yabar currently by default accepts configuration from the config file `~/.config/yabar/yabar.conf` or using `yabar -c [CONFIG_FILE]`. The config file should like something like this:
A bar or a block can be named to whatever name (preferably a short and meaningful name). Only names that are included in the "bar-list" and "block-list" entries will be drawn on the screen.
### Bar-specific options
Each bar can have its font, position (currently only top and bottom), background color, height, horizontal and vertical gaps, and other options.
* Font: Yabar currently accepts a string that contains a font or a list of fonts (similar to i3). Example:
font: "Droid Sans, FontAwesome Bold 9";
* Position: Yabar currently accepts top and bottom. Example:
position: "top";
* Gaps: You can define the size of horizontal and vertical gaps in pixels. Default is zero. Examples:
* Width: The default bar width is `screen size - 2 * horizontal gap`. However, if this option is used, the bar starts at `horizontal gap` and ends at `horizontal gap + width`. Example:
* Monitor: This option is used to specify the monitor using randr extension for the bar to be drawn on. You can find the name of your monitors using `xrandr -q` command. The default value is the first active monitor. Example:
* Inheritance: (thanks to a proposed idea by @Lindenk) As the config file gets larger because you want to add several bars, you may find yourself adding many identical option values for every added bar. This optional entry is added in order to inherit the options from a precedent bar into your next bar. You can also override the inherited options with new values.
You can also inherit a bar with not only its bar-specific options, but also with its blocks and their block-specific options as well using the `inherit-all` bar-specific option. Example:
inherit-all: "bar1";
* Button commands: Yabar already supports mouse button commands for each block (See [block-specific options](https://github.com/geommer/yabar#block-specific-options)). Moreover, yabar seeks to make the entire bar clickable even if the pressed area does not belong to any block or the corresponding button command for that block is not defined. Example:
* Type: The block type can be *periodic* where the command/script is executed within a fixed interval of time, *persistent* where the command/script runs in a persistent way like `xtitle` or *once* where the command/script is executed only once where the intended info should not change like in `whoami`. Examples:
type: "periodic";
type: "persist";
type: "once";
* Interval: In seconds. This is only useful when the block type is periodic. Example:
* Fixed size: You should define the fixed width size of the block. Yabar currently only supports fixed widths (this will be improved soon). You can deduce the appropriate width using trial and error. The current default value is 80 but you are encouraged to override it to a more appropriate value. Example:
* Pango markup: Yabar accepts either true or false without quotes. Default is false. Example:
pango-markup: true;
* Colors: A block has 4 kinds of colors. Background, foreground which is the font color when pango markup is not used, underline and overline. Colors are accepted in hex RRGGBB and AARRGGBB representations. Examples:
foreground-color-rgb : 0xeeeeee;
background-color-argb : 0x1dc93582;
underline-color-rgb : 0x1d1d1d;
overline-color-argb : 0xf0642356;
Note that the values are integers and not double-quoted strings.
* Button commands: This option is used to invoke a command/script upon a mouse button press. You have 5 buttons that usually represent left click, right click, middle click, scroll up and scroll down respectively but this may not be the case for everyone. Examples:
* Inheritance: As the config gets larger because you want to add many blocks, you may find yourself adding many identical option values for every added block. This optional entry is added in order to inherit the options from a precedent block into your new block. You can also override the inherited options with new values.
You can change block colors(background, foreground, underline and overline) within runtime. Along with pango markup format, you can fully control how a block looks throughout yabar's session.
If you wish to change one or more of the 4 color types, you must begin your string-to-be-drawn (i.e. the output string to stdout by your shell script) with `!Y FORMAT Y!`. the `FORMAT` statement should contain contain the color type (`BG` or `bg` for background, `FG` or `fg` for foreground, `U` or `u` for underline and `O` or `o` for overline). The color must be in hex AARRGGBB (So if you want to add an rgb color just make it `FFxxxxxx`). Examples:
Yabar sets a handful of environment variables before executing your commands/scripts that are defined in the `command-button{1-5}` entry. Such env variables can be useful when drawing your window on the corresponding button press. Current env variables are:
Yabar has several internal blocks developed in plain c. This feature is optional and can be disabled before building the code using the compilation conditional flag `-DYA_INTERNAL` in `Makefile`. Yabar scans the string value in the `exec` entry to check whether it is a reserved internal block or a normal command/script.
Internal blocks have 5 additional block-specific options:
internal-prefix # Inject a string (usually a font icon) before the output string
internal-suffix # Inject a string (usually a font icon) after the output string
internal-option1 # block-specific
internal-option2 # block-specific
internal-option3 # block-specific
Yabar has a growing set of useful blocks. You can try out the sampe config located in `examples/internal1.config`. The current blocks are:
* Date & time: Maybe the most essential block. You can control the output format using the [standard c library format](https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Formatting-Calendar-Time.html). Example:
exec: "YABAR_DATE";
internal-option1: "%a %d %b, %I:%M"; #Format
internal-prefix: " ";
interval: 2;
* Current window title: It uses EWMH to show the current window title. Example:
exec: "YABAR_TITLE";
fixed-size: 300;
* Current workspace: It uses EWMH to show the current workspace/desktop. Example:
exec: "YABAR_WORKSPACE";
internal-option1: " "; #Type all your workspace names (usually font icons) separated by a space between one another.
* Uptime: shows the system uptime. Currently it shows using a `hours:minutes` format.
exec: "YABAR_UPTIME";
interval: 5;
* Thermal: It checks out the thermal value in the file `/sys/class/NAME/temp`. Example:
exec: "YABAR_THERMAL";
internal-option1: "thermal_zone0"; #i.e. Replace `NAME` with your corresponding name
interval: 1;
* Brightness: It checks out the brightness value in the file `/sys/class/backlight/NAME/brightness`. Example:
exec: "YABAR_BRIGHTNESS";
internal-option1: "intel_backlight"; #i.e. Replace `NAME` with your corresponding name
interval: 1;
* Network bandwidth: It checks out the total transmitted and received bytes in the files `/sys/class/net/NAME/statistics/tx_bytes` and `/sys/class/net/NAME/statistics/rx_bytes` and convert them to rates. Example:
exec: "YABAR_BANDWIDTH";
internal-option1: "enp2s0"; #i.e. Replace NAME with your corresponding name
internal-option2: " "; #Two Strings (usually 2 font icons) to be injected before down/up values
interval: 2;
* Used RAM: It checks out the file `/proc/meminfo` and then computes the total used memory. Example:
exec: "YABAR_MEMORY";
interval: 1;
* CPU total load: It checks out the file `/proc/stat` and then computes the total load percentage: Example:
exec: "YABAR_CPU";
interval: 2;
internal-prefix: " ";
internal-suffix: "%";
* Disk IO activity: It checks out the file `/sys/class/block/NAME/stat` and then computes the read and write rates. Example:
