Supported window managers

[Lokaltog]

With #45 merged we should support most tiling WMs. Here's a list of the current (confirmed) supported WMs:

• qtile (@Lokaltog) - working after qtile/qtile@02fd471f3a3b9becd148709879c3569647d45325 (qtile/qtile#385)
• bspwm (@Lokaltog) - requires bspc config (top|bottom)_padding 26, does not support any space reservation properties and does not support the dock hint
• dwm (@bbenne10 @Lokaltog) - does not support EWMH, requires the dwm bar to have the same height and position as wkline to reserve the proper space
• monsterwm (@bbenne10)
• i3wm (@Lokaltog) - uses the dock hint and adds wkline as an additional statusline

Please post a comment if you're running a WM not on this list so I can add it to the list and eventually add this list to the README.

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[bbenne10]

Confirming that monsterwm works in that the window opens in the right spot. I'm having some (possibly unrelated) problems with any plugin other than the time. I'll look into that and report back this evening.

[bbenne10]

After getting everything installed properly, there're no problems under monsterwm. Works great.

[tuftedocelot]

Re bspwm settings, the 26 can be modified with the following (I went with 18):

1. Clone https://github.com/Lokaltog/wkline-theme-default in a directory (I went with ~/.config/wkline)
2. Edit app/assets/styl/main.styl and change: font-size (I went with 9) and height (I went with 18)
3. In the root wkline-theme-default folder, run grunt production
4. Edit your wkline config.json and change theme-uri to the repo you cloned ("file:///home/lucas/.config/wkline/wkline-theme-default/webroot/index.html" in my case).
5. Edit your wkline config.json and change height to the value set in main.styl

[Lokaltog]

I'm planning to make the font/size and height customizable in config.json (i.e. the values in config.json get passed on to the theme). It may even be possible to compile the stylesheet in the browser, in that case you'll be able to customize a lot of the design in config.json. It's on the todo list, but hasn't been prioritized yet.

[Lokaltog]

@tuftedocelot I've just updated the default theme to scale with the statusline height, it should look pretty nice at 18px now (depending on the font you're using and your preference). Could you check it out later and let me know what you think?

[tuftedocelot]

@Lokaltog The scaling is great! Top pic is pixel, bottom is scaling. The look of the font has definitely improved from manually specifying the pixel size to scaling. I haven't changed the style from sans-serif. I thought about it, but the default is perfectly sufficient.

[Lokaltog]

That's definitely an improvement, the icons also look much better! I think the font rendering looks slightly different because it may end up with a floating point font size, but in this case I think it looks much better with the new scaling. The sans-serif font setting should use your default GTK font, I think it looks best if the font matches the font in all other GTK apps. I might add an override for that later.

[axelGschaider]

running xmonad. Trying to get some info soon.

[jmcbee]

How about xmonad?