Qtile "Extras" Gives You Even More Customization Options

In this video, I'm going to try out some of the widget decorations that are available through the 'qtile-extras' package. 'qtile-extras' is a collection of extra libraries that allow you to mod your qtile bar (panel). I'm mainly installing it so I can some "BorderDecorations" to my panel widgets.
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[@elparaguayo9338]

Hey DT, I'm the developer of qtile-extras (and one of the developers for qtile). Thanks for taking the time to look at qtile-extras and make a video about it. The support is much appreciated. Sorry you had a few issues with some of the widgets. While some are marked as "experimental", I do expect them all to work but I also expect users to configure them in ways that I've not completely tested so things may break. If people submit bug reports then I typically try to fix things pretty quickly too. It would be great if you could let me know what problems you ran into as I'll try to fix them when I can (some may have been fixed already). You are right, I suspect most people are just installing the package for the decorations. The powerline and rect decorations are particularly popular among ricers so I was pleased to see some love for the border decorations too. Lastly, qtile-extras isn't installable via pip at the moment but I probably should look into doing that. However qtile-extras and qtile-extras-git are both in the AUR. Thanks again for the video.

[@RichardBronosky]

I’m so grateful that DT introduced me to QTile!

[@YrmiZ]

They both can do basically same things. If you like Python choose qtile or maybe Awesome if you feel more familar with LUA. I recommend testing them both.

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

@@YrmiZ "both"?!

[@Perry....]

@@YrmiZ ??? No one brought up Awesome. What?

[@marsdrums6298]

Qtile would probably be in my top 5 or top 6 tiling window managers. It is pretty slick for sure.

[@CarlosReyes-ku6ub]

Love Qtile and your videos... Perfect combo!

[@lukevideckis2260]

Thanks for introducing me to qtile, and now qtile extras

[@jonatasluizdeoliveira3507]

Nice tip, is fantastic feature.

[@jmac217x]

I'm baffled by whatever tangling is. I just realized you're writing in an org file and it's grepping and generating a config for you, this seems like something I need to run off and learn about

[@milohoffman274]

Time to check out LeftWM again. Its been much improved since the last time. Arco has great premade leftwm configs.

[@benipaskin-cherniavsky3338]

Python is NOT picky about trailing commas (10:04), you may include them or omit them. There is one exception: trailing comma is necessary to recognize a 1-element (tuple,) - but that's not the case here. Of course, trailing commas in multi-line situation are great to avoid errors and reduce diffs when later adding/re-ordering lines. I guess you're using some linter that enforces that.

[@Yadobler]

I love qtile but for school, with a 2in1 Touchscreen, it's a lot of hassle to constantly maintain a WM. I ultimately switched back to gnome, but I miss qtile. I'd love to go back one day. It's just too many different parts trying to fit together. I know it's a Unix philosophy but Idk, as a main computer I need stability over customisability. At least for now

[@chrislinuxtutorials5283]

I love Linux and DT.

[@sachinbhat7057]

Hey DT, Could you take a look at UmberWM? It seems to be quite an interesting project! Nice work on the qtile config too!

[@marioschroers7318]

»Rice, Rice, baby« is actually a song by Weird Al Yankovic, mocking the famous Vanilla Ice track from the late 80s 😁

[@wyfyj]

I wish more config files were done this way.

[@besnikrrustemi]

Hey DT, i love and use Qtile and love your Videos, one question though: are Keychords working correctly for you, using a keychord breaks the workspaces keybindings (super +1...9) and a qtile restart fixes it put it's a PITA. can you check whether you have that problem or not ?

[@stephen6409]

qtiles my favorite.

[@itsfish8672]

I am number 14 to hit the LIKE button sweet, GVDT.

[@Trox_t]

Hey dt, please do more videos server side, I really liked your nextcloud one. We had enough Linux desktop ; )

[@vaisakhkm783]

Can you please make a video on how to configure qtile wayland and wayland in general with proper bar, screensharing etc...

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

I try to open qtile in Wayland and get a blank screen. Any solution to fix that ?

[@ernestbunbury2]

What Firefox theme is that ?

[@shatterstone3045]

That's brave browser

[@ernestbunbury2]

What brave browser theme is that ?

[@atemoc]

I wonder if the process of making these work on NixOS would be any different or not?

[@florianfelix8295]

I’m using guix, it shouldn’t.

[@Redyf]

Make a video about how to use wayland on NixOS

[@sanalMakina.]

Is there any way to make windowname widget to centered in bar?

[@lukevideckis2260]

place spacer widget before and after

[@when2linux]

Do video about adding scratchpads to qtile,,,please

[@fabianpijpers]

Hi derek, What i see is that a lot of these tiling windows managers have in their config looks a lot like css, And the window movement and mouse config stuff looks a lot like javascript. And then there is some stuff that looks like html5 in its standard. So it is a lot like webdevelopment in a 1,2,3 part Webdesign. Front-End development. Back end development.

[@darukutsu]

And that's what I hate because I don't know web... God bless bspwm, polybar etc. developers for making easy software with configuringuration in sh.

[@zomakaja]

Check out hyprland