zenbar

maintenance

This is a side project of mine, so it may not have everything to suit your needs. Some other neat bars for macOS:

• https://github.com/Jean-Tinland/simple-bar
• https://github.com/apierz/chunkbar.widget
• https://github.com/blaadje/fancyBar
• https://github.com/zzzeyez/Pecan
• https://github.com/ahmadassaf/gaudiBar.widget (this one is also a helpful resource for extensible uebersicht widgets)

zenbar widget

• Works with both kwm and chunkwm
• Dynamically changing colors (based on wrapper script around pywal)
• Displays bsp/float/[n/m] (monocle mode)
• List of spaces, with active one highlighted with color
• Name of focused window
• Currently-playing song won't work since Firefox extensions can't write to filesystem anymore
• cpu/mem info
• Battery percentage remaining (including whether it's charging)
• Date and time

Space 1 or 2:

Difference between charging and not charging:

Dynamic Color Changing

This works by caching a colors.sh file as colors_<desktopID>.sh for each different desktop.
The easiest way to do this is using my scripts wp and unique_space.sh. They are meant to be copied into your ~/.bin/ and called manually as a replacement for pywal when you want to change your wallpaper. See wp -h for usage.
Each desktop has its own cached file, and theme.coffee and focused-window.coffee load from it every 1s.

My Changes

• Changed the kwm/chunkwm active space information to a color box rather than parentheses (see screens)
• Added dynamic color loading/changing (for use with pywal, themer, etc)
• Added bolt symbol near battery to indicate when charging (font-awesome currently (Jan 2017) has no charging battery symbol) - see screenshots
• Changed font to monospace and increased the size in certain areas for important text
• Modified widget spacing

Previous Work (as of 03/20/17)

• Herrbischoff's original nerdbar, inspired by koekeishiya's NerdTool configuration
• koekeishiya's modified nerdbar (kwm/khd author)
  • added active-space widget
  • added support for font-awesome icons
  • improved querying to kwmc
  • fixed now playing: playing.coffee, which uses Firefox plugin CurrentSong to also display the currently-playing song in the bar
• deathbeam's modified nerdbar, which made the following additions:
  • modifed focused-window to include current/total spaces (very helpful)
  • ellipsis cutoff if focused-window title is too long

Installation

Make sure you have Übersicht installed, and then clone this repository.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you name the resulting folder amar-bar.widget, or change the image paths in background.coffee and focused-window.coffee, since they source css and scripts (respectively) starting with the parent directory's name.

# or wherever your ubersicht looks for widgets (mine looks in ~/.config/ubersicht/widgets/)
git clone https://github.com/Amar1729/nerdbar.widget $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/amar-bar.widget