Syntaxes

[T0MuX]

Hi ! First, I thank you a lot for what you're doing with tint3, very beautyful fork of tint2 ! A lot of potential !!

I have some questions about the syntax in the tint3rc config file. I want to do some things but I don't know how :

• how to put an image somewhere in the bar ?
• how can I create a launcher ?
• can we pipe a shell command like conky do ? if yes, how ?
• can we add a systray and, again, if yes how ?
• I want to increase the size of the active window's title but I don't know how. It's truncated you know (see this : http://www.picpaste.de/Screenshot_20160522-123436.png)

I don't know if what I ask is possible, but if it is I thank you a lot again !

Bye

T0MuX

[tmathmeyer]

Firstly, thanks for the compliments, but tint3 isn't a fork of tint2, there is not shared code.
as for your points:

• images are not supported in this bar (yet!)
• launchers and bars are separate. I use dmenu, but there are plenty of others you can use
• there is an option to have a shell command run and its output displayed. see the configuration.md file for how that works.
• like the launcher, the systray is separate. I recomend using stalone tray for that.
• your screenshot 404s.

[T0MuX]

Hi, thank you for your fast answer. And sorry for my english, i'm french.

Okay I though it was a fork, so nice project !

• For images, okay I will wait so :)
• Are you telling to me I will never see any icons in tint3 ?
• Okay I will take a look into configuration.md
• Are you also telling me I will never have a systray in my tint3 bar ? However it's sooo usefull, you know, the dropbox icon, deluge, clip it etc....
• Don't worry for the 404 on the screen it's not big deal. I explain : my tint3 is like that :

1 2 3 4 5 6_______________Title of the curre...____________94% ___Tue. 24.05__23:56

And I want it like that :
1 2 3 4 5 6______Title of the current window, not truncated____94%___Tue. 24.05__23:56

Ideally with Launchers just after desktops and a Systray just before the battery :p
but you seem to told me it will never be dev. Am i Right ?

[tmathmeyer]

In terms of launchers, I thought you meant a search-style launcher (dmenu, rofi, lighthouse, etc) rather than a click-to-launch type. I suppose if you wanted that you could make a block with a shell execute on click. Once Image support is added, you could theoretically make an image that when clicked would execute something.

Like I mentioned in the previous post, a good systray is stalonetray (http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/). I definitely believe that it is more appropriate to keep it separate from a bar.

The truncation is deliberate, but can be changed if you're willing to recompile tint3 yourself. I may make this configurable soon. If you would like to change it, check out lines 24 and 25 in src/source/draw.c, where two variables are defined. making these numbers larger should give you the effect you want.

[T0MuX]

I thank you for the draw.c trick to change the max lengt of active window's title, it worked like a charm :)
For the search-style launcher, it would be a great idea but I would like to have some icons (launchers) like we can do in any panel. For now, I use gmrun to run everything lol. I was thinking about Synapse but I think it's not really homogeneous with my BSPWM environement.

For the systray, I'm testing stalonetray but little complicated to configure. I can't change the default position, it opens everytime on the top-left edge -_-
By the way, can you give me your opinion, why do you think it's not a good idea to integrate a systray to a bar ? before I was using tint2 (native systray support) and I think it's really cool and simple to use, simple to configure like that. Is it for development reason ? too complicated to do ? or simply your opinion, your preference ? Your opinion interest me :)

[T0MuX]

Hi, I report an issue (or maybe I do it wrong) with the shell block.

I added this to my tint3rc :
[shelltest]
id shell
echo "test eee "

and I added "shelltest" in the [[bar]] block.
It work fine, "test eee " appear well... but... with a special char I can't remove oO. See this :
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/890508Screenshot20160529182451.png

[tmathmeyer]

I can't reproduce that (maybe you have a weird font / terminal putting in weird characters)
I would recommend using "text" rather than "shell though"

[shelltest]
id text
source test eee 

[T0MuX]

Oh thank you for your answer but this is not what i'm looking for. I used "echo" command just to train myself to pipe command's return into tint3 ^^
I'm already using "id text" for displays my nick (just for the look) and it's working fine ;)

Anyway, I just tried with another font (Liberation instead of Terminus) and I have the same issue : a weird char appears just at the end. Can you try with Liberation font ? And you tell me if you have the same

[T0MuX]

Hi, this seems to be, a bit, abandonned lol