…But I failed I guess Couldn’t totally copy the theme but ended up creating an altogether different theme instead. But its mostly sane… apart from the fact that my rofi configs are a big mess.
Decided to share it with y’all.
I wanted to replicate the traditional desktop feel, and I’d like to hear what else you might want to have in a window manager theme that tries to resemble a DE. Currently it has a power menu, a whisker menu-like rofi drun, and the launchers at bottom.
Dotfiles are here if anybody’s wanting to give it a try.
Looks very cool and I like how well organized and commented the config is.
Now, I am not into theming (to say the least ), but wouldn’t xfce panel provide more authentic look? Unless you actually wanted to avoid using any of the xfce things
Indeed, the xfce panel would’ve provided a more xfce-like look. But that would’ve taken away the challenge
Writing the polybar took the major part of my time, trying to make it look like xfce.
Edit:
Thanks a lot!. I had been planning to add more comments and stuff, so that the config becomes more accessible by new users.
Yes you can enable/disable system tray. Keep in mind that you won’t able to allow/block icons for specific apps from within polybar itself
One limitation is that you cannot position the tray among different modules, as the tray is not a polybar module. It can either be at extreme left, extreme right or center
Add this to polybar config
tray-position = right
Following are the complete options for system tray
Config
; Position of the system tray window
; If empty or undefined, tray support will be disabled
; NOTE: A center aligned tray will cover center aligned modules
;
; Available positions:
; left
; center
; right
; none
tray-position =
; If true, the bar will not shift its
; contents when the tray changes
tray-detached = false
; Tray icon max size
tray-maxsize = 16
; DEPRECATED! Since 3.3.0 the tray always uses pseudo-transparency
; Enable pseudo transparency
; Will automatically be enabled if a fully transparent
; background color is defined using `tray-background`
tray-transparent = false
; Background color for the tray container
; ARGB color (e.g. #f00, #ff992a, #ddff1023)
; By default the tray container will use the bar
; background color.
tray-background = ${root.background}
; Tray offset defined as pixel value (e.g. 35) or percentage (e.g. 50%)
tray-offset-x = 0
tray-offset-y = 0
; Pad the sides of each tray icon
tray-padding = 0
; Scale factor for tray clients
tray-scale = 1.0
See the first post here. I’ve posted three screenshots. In each of them, I’ve placed the system tray at the extreme right on bottom. In the first screenshot, I have Network manager (wifi icon) and Strawberry Music Player running. That will give you an idea how it looks.
Oh, I’m sorry I didn’t read it fully. I didn’t polybar could do that. It looks amazing. I will definitely have a try when I get back home after my vacation. Thanks for the awesome effort! Thumbs up!
Couldn’t totally copy the theme but ended up creating an altogether different theme instead. But its mostly sane… apart from the fact that my rofi configs are a big mess.
