hotbar

Probably the most customizable system bar in the world.

Download:

go get mrogalski.eu/go/hotbar

If you do not have the go command on your system, you need to Install Go first

Probably the most customizable system bar in the world. Replacement for i3bar, xfce4-panel, etc.

If you've ever been annoyed by quirks or limited customizability of default system bars, hotbar is for you.It's distinguishing feature is the ability to configure every aspect of drawing directly in the source code. So go ahead and tweak it to your liking!

Features

• ability to tweak drawing routines directly in the source code
• modules can draw custom GFX at 60fps with SDL2 & OpenGL
• low power usage - only one redraw / minute
• tweaking backlight or sound volume with mouse wheel
• all modules are usable with touchscreens

Usage

Run it with hotbar.

Customize it by navigating to the source directory, and tweaking some of the files (knowledge of the go language is not really necessary):

cd ~/go/src/mrogalski.eu/go/hotbar/

• modules.go - List of modules. Allows you to add, disable or reorder the modules.
• theme.go - Margins, paddings, icons & fonts. This should cover 90% of customizations you might want.
• backlight.go, date.go, time.go, disk.go, power.go, pulseaudio.go, xkb.go, i3.go - Default modules. Use this to tweak their behavior or as a base when creating your own modules.
• globals.go, stepper.go, widgets.go - Variables and functions that may be helpful when adding new modules.
• main.go - Logic for starting up hotbar
• tray.go - Logic for displaying the system tray
• signals.go - Logic for handling Ctrl+C gracefully

After playing with the source, run it with:

go run *.go

If you're happy with the results, save them as the hotbar command by running:

go install

Contributing

Share your creations by forking this repository!

If you fixed something or added something that others may find useful, fire up a pull request.

Credits

• Icons8.com - for the included icons
• be5invis - for the included font

Bugs

• PulseAudio devices don't include external sound cards (for example Bluetooth speakers)

• Tray icons don't refresh the background correctly.

• • * Automatically generated by autoreadme on 2018.06.14