Copyright	(c) Don Stewart <dons@cse.unsw.edu.au>
License	BSD3-style (see LICENSE)
Maintainer	Don Stewart <dons@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Stability	unstable
Portability	unportable
Safe Haskell	None
Language	Haskell98

XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP

Contents

Usage
Build your own formatter
Example formatters
Formatting utilities
Internal formatting functions

Description

xmonad calls the logHook with every internal state update, which is useful for (among other things) outputting status information to an external status bar program such as xmobar or dzen.

This module provides a pretty-printing abstraction and utilities that can be used to customize what is logged to a status bar. See XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar for an abstraction over starting these status bars. Together these are a modern replacement for XMonad.Hooks.DynamicLog, which is now just a compatibility wrapper.

Synopsis

data PP = PP {
- ppCurrent :: WorkspaceId -> String
- ppVisible :: WorkspaceId -> String
- ppHidden :: WorkspaceId -> String
- ppHiddenNoWindows :: WorkspaceId -> String
- ppVisibleNoWindows :: Maybe (WorkspaceId -> String)
- ppUrgent :: WorkspaceId -> String
- ppRename :: String -> WindowSpace -> String
- ppSep :: String
- ppWsSep :: String
- ppTitle :: String -> String
- ppTitleSanitize :: String -> String
- ppLayout :: String -> String
- ppOrder :: [String] -> [String]
- ppSort :: X ([WindowSpace] -> [WindowSpace])
- ppExtras :: [X (Maybe String)]
- ppOutput :: String -> IO ()
}
def :: Default a => a
dynamicLogString :: PP -> X String
dynamicLogWithPP :: PP -> X ()
dzenPP :: PP
xmobarPP :: PP
sjanssenPP :: PP
byorgeyPP :: PP
wrap :: String -> String -> String -> String
pad :: String -> String
trim :: String -> String
shorten :: Int -> String -> String
shorten' :: String -> Int -> String -> String
shortenLeft :: Int -> String -> String
shortenLeft' :: String -> Int -> String -> String
xmobarColor :: String -> String -> String -> String
xmobarFont :: Int -> String -> String
xmobarAction :: String -> String -> String -> String
xmobarBorder :: String -> String -> Int -> String -> String
xmobarRaw :: String -> String
xmobarStrip :: String -> String
xmobarStripTags :: [String] -> String -> String
dzenColor :: String -> String -> String -> String
dzenEscape :: String -> String
dzenStrip :: String -> String
filterOutWsPP :: [WorkspaceId] -> PP -> PP
pprWindowSet :: WorkspaceSort -> [Window] -> PP -> WindowSet -> String
pprWindowSetXinerama :: WindowSet -> String

Usage

An example usage for this module would be:

import XMonad
import XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar
import XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP

myPP = def { ppCurrent = xmobarColor "black" "white" }
mySB = statusBarProp "xmobar" (pure myPP)
main = xmonad . withEasySB mySB defToggleStrutsKey $ myConfig

Check XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar for more examples and an in depth explanation.

Build your own formatter

data PP Source #

The PP type allows the user to customize the formatting of status information.

Constructors

PP

Fields

ppCurrent :: WorkspaceId -> String
how to print the tag of the currently focused workspace
ppVisible :: WorkspaceId -> String
how to print tags of visible but not focused workspaces (xinerama only)
ppHidden :: WorkspaceId -> String
how to print tags of hidden workspaces which contain windows
ppHiddenNoWindows :: WorkspaceId -> String
how to print tags of empty hidden workspaces
ppVisibleNoWindows :: Maybe (WorkspaceId -> String)
how to print tags of empty visible workspaces
ppUrgent :: WorkspaceId -> String
format to be applied to tags of urgent workspaces.
ppRename :: String -> WindowSpace -> String
rename/augment the workspace tag (note that WindowSpace -> … acts as a Reader monad)
ppSep :: String
separator to use between different log sections (window name, layout, workspaces)
ppWsSep :: String
separator to use between workspace tags
ppTitle :: String -> String
window title format for the focused window. To display the titles of all windows—even unfocused ones—check logTitles.
ppTitleSanitize :: String -> String
escape / sanitizes input to ppTitle
ppLayout :: String -> String
layout name format
ppOrder :: [String] -> [String]
how to order the different log sections. By default, this function receives a list with three formatted strings, representing the workspaces, the layout, and the current window titles, respectively. If you have specified any extra loggers in ppExtras, their output will also be appended to the list. To get them in the reverse order, you can just use ppOrder = reverse. If you don't want to display the current layout, you could use something like ppOrder = \(ws:_:t:_) -> [ws,t], and so on.
ppSort :: X ([WindowSpace] -> [WindowSpace])
how to sort the workspaces. See XMonad.Util.WorkspaceCompare for some useful sorts.
ppExtras :: [X (Maybe String)]
loggers for generating extra information such as time and date, system load, battery status, and so on. See XMonad.Util.Loggers for examples, or create your own!
ppOutput :: String -> IO ()
applied to the entire formatted string in order to output it. Can be used to specify an alternative output method (e.g. write to a pipe instead of stdout), and/or to perform some last-minute formatting. Note that this is only used by dynamicLogWithPP; it won't work with dynamicLogString or XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.

Instances

Instances details

Default PP Source #

The default pretty printing options:

1 2 [3] 4 7 : full : title

That is, the currently populated workspaces, the current workspace layout, and the title of the focused window.

Instance details

Defined in XMonad.Hooks.StatusBar.PP

Methods

def :: PP #

def :: Default a => a #

The default value for this type.

dynamicLogString :: PP -> X String Source #

The same as dynamicLogWithPP, except it simply returns the status as a formatted string without actually printing it to stdout, to allow for further processing, or use in some application other than a status bar.

dynamicLogWithPP :: PP -> X () Source #

Format the current status using the supplied pretty-printing format, and write it to stdout.

Example formatters

dzenPP :: PP Source #

Settings to emulate dwm's statusbar, dzen only.

xmobarPP :: PP Source #

Some nice xmobar defaults.

sjanssenPP :: PP Source #

The options that sjanssen likes to use with xmobar, as an example. Note the use of xmobarColor and the record update on def.

byorgeyPP :: PP Source #

The options that byorgey likes to use with dzen, as another example.

Formatting utilities

wrap Source #

Arguments

:: String	left delimiter
-> String	right delimiter
-> String	output string
-> String

Wrap a string in delimiters, unless it is empty.

pad :: String -> String Source #

Pad a string with a leading and trailing space.

trim :: String -> String Source #

Trim leading and trailing whitespace from a string.

shorten :: Int -> String -> String Source #

Limit a string to a certain length, adding "..." if truncated.

shorten' :: String -> Int -> String -> String Source #

Limit a string to a certain length, adding end if truncated.

shortenLeft :: Int -> String -> String Source #

Like shorten, but truncate from the left instead of right.

shortenLeft' :: String -> Int -> String -> String Source #

Like shorten', but truncate from the left instead of right.

xmobarColor Source #

Arguments

:: String	foreground color: a color name, or #rrggbb format
-> String	background color
-> String	output string
-> String

Use xmobar escape codes to output a string with given foreground and background colors.

xmobarFont Source #

Arguments

:: Int	index: index of the font to use (0: standard font)
-> String	output string
-> String

Use xmobar escape codes to output a string with the font at the given index

xmobarAction Source #

Arguments

:: String	Command. Use of backticks (`) will cause a parse error.
-> String	Buttons 1-5, such as "145". Other characters will cause a parse error.
-> String	Displayed/wrapped text.
-> String

Encapsulate text with an action. The text will be displayed, and the action executed when the displayed text is clicked. Illegal input is not filtered, allowing xmobar to display any parse errors. Uses xmobar's new syntax wherein the command is surrounded by backticks.

xmobarBorder Source #

Arguments

:: String	Border type. Possible values: VBoth, HBoth, Full, Top, Bottom, Left or Right
-> String	color: a color name, or #rrggbb format
-> Int	width in pixels
-> String	output string
-> String

Use xmobar box to add a border to an arbitrary string.

xmobarRaw :: String -> String Source #

Encapsulate arbitrary text for display only, i.e. untrusted content if wrapped (perhaps from window titles) will be displayed only, with all tags ignored. Introduced in xmobar 0.21; see their documentation. Be careful not to shorten the result.

xmobarStrip :: String -> String Source #

Strip xmobar markup, specifically the fc, icon and action tags and the matching tags like /fc.

xmobarStripTags Source #

Arguments

:: [String]	tags
-> String
-> String	with all tag.../tag removed

dzenColor Source #

Arguments

:: String	foreground color: a color name, or #rrggbb format
-> String	background color
-> String	output string
-> String

Use dzen escape codes to output a string with given foreground and background colors.

dzenEscape :: String -> String Source #

Escape any dzen metacharacters.

dzenStrip :: String -> String Source #

Strip dzen formatting or commands.

filterOutWsPP :: [WorkspaceId] -> PP -> PP Source #

Transforms a pretty-printer into one not displaying the given workspaces.

For example, filtering out the NSP workspace before giving the PP to dynamicLogWithPP:

logHook = dynamicLogWithPP . filterOutWsPP [scratchpadWorkspaceTag] $ def

Here is another example, when using XMonad.Layout.IndependentScreens. If you have handles hLeft and hRight for bars on the left and right screens, respectively, and pp is a pretty-printer function that takes a handle, you could write

logHook = let log screen handle = dynamicLogWithPP . filterOutWsPP [scratchpadWorkspaceTag] . marshallPP screen . pp $ handle
          in log 0 hLeft >> log 1 hRight

Internal formatting functions

pprWindowSet :: WorkspaceSort -> [Window] -> PP -> WindowSet -> String Source #

Format the workspace information, given a workspace sorting function, a list of urgent windows, a pretty-printer format, and the current WindowSet.

pprWindowSetXinerama :: WindowSet -> String Source #