Tianbar
Tianbar is a status bar for XMonad and possibly similar window managers. It is
using WebKit as its rendering engine, meaning that the entire look and feel is
customizable using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Usage
Tianbar will show index.html
from its XDG configuration directory
(usually $HOME/.config/tianbar
). It it up to you to create that, add styles,
widgets and other behavior.
A small collection of widgets written in JavaScript is bundled with Tianbar,
see scripts
directory. Widgets are loaded using RequireJS,
which, as well as jQuery and other libraries required, are bundled
with Tianbar.
For an example of RequireJS configuration, see the
example index.html.
IBus
Displays the status of IBus input method.
Network
Displays the connection status from NetworkManager.
Power
Displays the battery status for all the batteries reporting through UPower.
Time
Displays the time and date.
Volume
Displays the current PulseAudio volume. Note that module-cli-protocol-unix
is required to be loaded.
Weather
Displays the weather at current location (determined via HTML geolocation API)
through OpenWeatherMap.
XMonad
XMonad status widget works by listening on DBus for messages sent by the
provided logHook
, see System.Tianbar.XMonadLog
documentation for details.
Quirks
- AJAX requests from Tianbar are not subject to the same origin policy. This
makes it easier to interact with various Web services. You can also make
requests to the local files, for example, to extract CPU activity statistics
from
/proc/stat
.
- Interaction with the displayed Web page is limited. For example, text fields
are not active if there are other windows on the screen.
Acknowledgements
The project is essentially a fork of Taffybar, stripped down of
Haskell configuration and widgets and not yet having achieved functional parity
with it.