This is a desktop information bar intended for use with XMonad and similar window managers. It is similar in spirit to xmobar; it is different in that it gives up some simplicity for a reasonable helping of eye candy. This bar is based on GTK+ (via gtk2hs) and uses fancy graphics where doing so is reasonable and useful. Example:
The bar is configured much like XMonad. It uses ~/.config/taffybar/taffybar.hs as its configuration file. This file is just a Haskell program that invokes the real main function with a configuration object. The configuration file basically just specifies which widgets to use, though any arbitrary Haskell code can be executed before the bar is created.
There are some generic pre-defined widgets available:
- Graph (modeled after the graph widget in Awesome)
- Vertical bar (also similar to a widget in Awesome)
- Periodically-updating labels, graphs, and vertical bars
There are also several more specialized widgets:
- Battery widget
- Textual clock
- Freedesktop.org notifications (via dbus)
- MPRIS1 and MPRIS2 widgets
- Weather widget
- XMonad log widget (listens on dbus instead of stdin)
- System tray
- Freedesktop.org menu
See full documentation of release version here.
NOTE: gtk2hs-buildtools is needed for installations with GHC 8 and above, till there's better support for setup-depends.
cabal install taffybar
stack install gtk2hs-buildtools
stack install taffybar
An incomplete list of things that would be cool to have:
- xrandr widget (for dealing changing clone/extend mode and orientation)
- Better behavior when adding/removing monitors (never tried it)
- Make MPRIS more configurable