yabai-uberbar

Personal Übersicht bar with graphic overview of windows on each space for use with yabai.

Disclaimers:

• This has only been tested on my personal machine
• Numerous values (especially script paths) are hardcoded and will likely require manual tweaking to work on your system

Screen Shots:

This widget is a heavily modified form of blaadje/fancyBar, which itself was based on apierz/nerdbar.widget.

Dependencies

Yabai dependencies

• koekeishiya/yabai: A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning.
• koekeishiya/skhd: Simple hotkey daemon for macOS.

Übersicht dependencies

• nodejs: a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
• felixhageloh/uebersicht: Desktop widgets via a webview.

yabai-uberbar dependencies

• stedolan/jq: Command-line JSON processor.
• dash shell: Lightweight, fast-starting shell.

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Installation

Install dependencies

brew install dash jq yabai skhd node
brew cask install ubersicht

Clone the widget to your Übersicht widget directory

# The default Übersicht widget directory:
WIDGET_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/yabai-uberbar.widget"
git clone https://github.com/AdamWagner/yabai-uberbar.git "$WIDGET_DIR"

Configure yabai Use yabai signals to refresh Übersicht when you change space or create, destroy, move, or resize windows:

Add the following to your .yabairc file:

yabai -m signal --add event=space_changed action="uber-bar-refresh"
yabai -m signal --add event=window_created action="uber-bar-refresh"
yabai -m signal --add event=window_destroyed action="uber-bar-refresh"
yabai -m signal --add event=window_moved action="uber-bar-refresh"
yabai -m signal --add event=window_resized action="uber-bar-refresh"
yabai -m signal --add event=bar_refresh action="uber-bar-refresh"

An example implementation of uber-bar-refresh via Applescript is included.

Enhancements / Fixes

• Flesh out "zoomed window indicator" POC
• Improve visibility of space index number against window edges
• Faster performance. Consider React-nodegui?
• Indicate active window
• Indicate application running in active window
• Multi-monitor support
• Add time, date, battery, wifi, etc. See /qhuyduong/yabai-status-bar.