A couple of questions regarding customization of the i3 bar

The symbol is just to make it a bit themed, not necessarily ties icons to that workspace. Although I started to do this for my personal usecase…

Don’t know why the symbol and number don’t work together, never had that problem before. Perhaps I am missing some system fonts will have to check.

@Zircon34
ws1

that what want ?

EDit … :pray: I on sway. i3 at home on diff card

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now i have just copy eos i3 config

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Alright.
I guess in EnOS default config some work spaces are assigned to some apps.

# bind program to workspace and focus to them on startup:
#assign [class="Xfce4-terminal"] $ws1
#assign [class="(?i)firefox"] $ws2
#assign [class="Thunar"] $ws3

Since I have commented out them, I just removed their symbols as well.

your system your rule :+1:

only one i would # out be ws1 ( terminal should no be fixed . unless you have 2 )

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Interesting thing, you could have a negative value for the tray padding. Here is the result for:
tray padding -5

padding-negative-value

Not something I want, of course, but I didn’t know it would accept a negative integer as value.

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the padding is completele unusable… some stuff on i3 seems to be vise-versa as i do not understand what for padding is not done between the tray icons and instead change the space top and bottom ? and also not the space as it changes the size of the icons…

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strange
with tray_padding -5 my icons go big

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tray_padding 0

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edit: nevermind i know why :crazy_face:

Looks like the one we get is defined by the default value if tray padding not set?

By default, a padding of 2 pixels is used for the upper, lower and right-hand side of the tray area and between the individual icons.
https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#_tray_padding

when I comment out tray padding 0, I get smaller and even tighter icons on the tray.

Obey Fitts’s law

tray_padding 0

:bowing_man:t5:

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@anon12581665 i look same you
i3-block

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@Zircon34

:pray: i use polybar

Polybar

how i would do it ( if wanted)
(in polybar config )

ws-icon-0 = 1;1:
ws-icon-1 = 2;
ws-icon-2 = 3;
ws-icon-3 = 4;

if no want ( : ) remove or replace

EDit… prob same idea for i3block ( :pray: i never try i3block )

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polybar you can much more also tray padding :wink:

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true . i no use tray :innocent:

EDIt… Waybar on sway nice

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Waybar only work on sway :sweat:

For now I settle on a radical solution:

bar {

(some stuff here)

mode hide
hidden_state hide
modifier Mod1

(some stuff here)

}

If I don’t like what I see, then let it be out of my sight :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :sweat_smile:

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I am burning all my bridges back to DE:s :rofl:

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true can always hide the bar :sweat_smile:

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DE hard habit for break … when you get WM set how you like you never go back :wink: ( no full time )

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i3wm+polybar
you will never go back to DE :slightly_smiling_face:

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True.
I was kidding. I still like DE:s but the more I get used to WM (for now only i3) the more I feel at home.
There is really no need for the “Honk, Bang, Whistle and Crash” of a DE :blush: