Window manager widgets¶
Awesome widget¶
Note
Powerline currently only supports awesome 3.5.
Note
The Powerline widget will spawn a shell script that runs in the background and updates the statusline with awesome-client.
Add the following to rc.lua, where {repository_root} is the absolute path to Powerline installation directory:
package.path = package.path .. ';{repository_root}/powerline/bindings/awesome/?.lua'
require('powerline')
Then add the powerline_widget to wibox:
right_layout:add(powerline_widget)
Qtile widget¶
Add the following to ~/.config/qtile/config.py:
from powerline.bindings.qtile.widget import Powerline
screens = [
Screen(
top=bar.Bar([
# ...
Powerline(timeout=2),
# ...
],
),
),
]
LemonBoy’s bar¶
To run the bar simply pipe the output of the binding script into bar and specify appropriate options, for example like this:
python /path/to/powerline/bindings/bar/powerline-bar.py | bar
to run with i3, simply exec this in i3 config file:
exec python /path/to/powerline/bindings/bar/powerline-bar.py --i3 | bar
See the bar documentation for more information and options.
I3 bar¶
Note
As the patch to include background-colors in i3bar is likely not to be merged, it is recommended to instead run bar (see above). The source for i3bgbar is however still available here.
Add the following to ~/.i3/config:
bar {
i3bar_command i3bgbar
status_command python /path/to/powerline/bindings/i3/powerline-i3.py
font pango:PowerlineFont 12
}
where i3bgbar may be replaced with the path to the custom i3bar binary and PowerlineFont is any system font with powerline support.