awesomebar

Description

This patch changes the taskbar to be more like awesome. To be specific, it:

shows all tasks in the current tag in the taskbar at all times
clicking on an unfocused window's title in the taskbar focuses that window
clicking on a focused window's title in the taskbar hides that window
clicking on a hidden window's title in the taskbar unhides and focuses that window

You can also hide and unhide windows from the keyboard. The default bindings are:

M-j/M-k to cycle through the visible windows in the current workspace
M-J/M-K to cycle through all windows in the current workspace - hidden windows shown this way are re-hidden once focus is lost
M-h to hide the current active window
M-s to unhide a window made visible by M-J/M-K
M-S to show all windows in the current workspace including hidden windows

Since this patch relies on knowing how big everything is in the taskbar, make sure to adjust the buttonpress()/drawbar() functions to account for any space in the taskbar used by other patches (such as systray).

screenshot

Changelog

2022-08-29:

Adapted to recent version
fix: crash on using shortcut M-J/M-K when all windows are hidden
add: new function to show all windows(hidden or shown) in the current workspace and a keyboard shortcut for it

2020-09-07:

add: manage hidden windows via keyboard

2020-08-29:

fix: crash on empty bar click
fix: hidden clients remain hidden after dwm restart
add: awesomebar-statuscmd and awesomebar-statuscmd-signal combined patches as separate files

2019-03-10:

fix: uneven tabs count produce visual glitches

Download

Updated version from Xac:

dwm-awesomebar-20220829-6.3.diff (2022-08-29)

2020-09-07 version:

dwm-awesomebar-20200907-6.2.diff (2020-09-07)

Updated version from Yegor Bayev:

dwm-awesomebar-20200829-6.2.diff (2020-08-29)
dwm-awesomebar-statuscmd-6.2.diff (2020-08-29)
dwm-awesomebar-statuscmd-signal-6.2.diff (2020-08-29)

Original ornx patch:

dwm-awesomebar-6.2.diff (2019-06-27)

Authors

ornx <ornx[at]protonmail.com>
Yegor Bayev kodxpub@gmail.com
Xac jiangfengxi.c@gmail.com