A Decently Good Way to Create Custom Polybar Modules

[@linuxinfrench9388]

Hi Mack you can make it simplier because awk can also 'grep' strings: In your polybar module: exec = df -H | awk '/nvme0n1p1/{print $5" - "$4}' The output will be: 61% - 194G In case a script is not necessary...

[@makc]

This is true. For some reason I had it in my head that it would be better to do this in a separate script. But I can confirm, it works fine either way.

[@Mangeshrex_]

You're thumbnail god bruh 🙇🙇

[@rafaelantonioricardibranco2336]

I think the "efficient way" is something like: df -h / | awk '{ print $5 " - " $4 }' | tail -n 1 you can change the " - " by any emogi, I guess. And yes, sed -e '1d' at the end should be a little better, and a little harder to read Edit: If are you using awk anyway, just use: df -h / | awk 'NR==2 { print $5 " - " $4 }' makes more sense. Edit 2: in the video, in the "windows part" Mark are calling "dh", not "df".

[@carlobucosse5458]

I have an identical polybar setup as yours. Is there for the centered dots to show the active workspace? I’d like for the active workspace icon to be different

[@makc]

There is an xworkspaces module that works pretty well for a lot of window managers; but it’s borked in Awesome (also DWM, I think). That’s the best way I know of to achieve something like that.

[@carlobucosse5458]

@@makc do you know if it’s borked in i3wm?

[@makc]

Polybar has its own i3 module. Should work great there.

[@LordChaos1973]

To delete the first line easily, pipe it through: sed -e '1d'

[@hakanozkum]

Hey. İ have a issue w polybar. I have a laptop and i've tried your dot conf for awesomewm and polybar. everything is fine on wm side. But when i press left click on polybar, just broken. I didnt anything on polybar. right click and scroll-down/up is okay. I'm a so noob user i know :C

[@makc]

Try swapping the font to something else maybe? I didn’t install fonts from the AUR, so that could be the issue.

[@hakanozkum]

@@makc nope. i figured out i think. That all about xwindow. I removed the xwindow module in the modeles.ini everyting is fine now. but idk why thats was happen.

[@makc]

I literally just got home from work, played with it, and came back here to tell you to ditch the xwindow module. I'm not sure why but that's breaking it for me as well. Might be a polybar issue, because I'm pretty sure it was working fine like two weeks ago. Thanks for watching! Edit: Turns out that this problem can be solved by adding: [bar/awesome] override-redirect = true But, this also makes the bar always stay on top of windows (including full screen ones). I did a little bit of looking around through GitHub issues, and it seems like polybar just doesn't play as nicely with some window managers (apparently awesome is one of them). I think I'll probably just ditch that module for my config, until a fix comes around.

[@hakanozkum]

@@makc thank u your feedback. We can write a script about the fullscreen i mean stay on top of windows. But this time it will run a little bit slowly. İ will research.

[@hakanozkum]

Maybe awesome bar is good to us. İ will try to make a theme like this plybar theme. Maybe its better idea.

[@sarundayo]

What auto-completion plugin do you use? CoC?

[@makc]

Coc.nvim

[@fritzrehde9182]

Did you recently switch from MacOS to Arch Linux?

[@makc]

I've been running linux for like a year and a half; but yes