I3bar-conky - is positioning the output possible?

answered 2014-11-27 16:08:52 +0000

Airblader
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As an alternative to the pipe script solution, you can change your .conkyrc by adding a dummy element and using i3bar's separator properties:

,{ \
  "full_text": "Last Element", \
  "separator": false, \
  "separator_block_width": 50 \
} \
,{ \
  "full_text": "" \
} \

The 50 will change the widht of the gap to the right. Of course, instead of using separator_block_width you can also just use spaces in the dummy element's full_text property. You'll still need separator: false, though.

One advantage to is that you don't need another shell level in your chain.

By the way: the \ are used to turn the JSON into one physical line which improves the performance of i3bar's parsing by quite a bit.

answered 2014-11-27 09:34:28 +0000

Adaephon
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updated 2014-11-27 09:35:10 +0000

i3bar itself has no options for positioning the status output. It is always on the right, either next to edge of the screen or next to the tray.

I do not know what capabilities conky has to move things around, but the following wrapper script should do as a workaround

#!/bin/sh
conky | while :
do
    read line
    echo "$line  " || exit 1
done

This just adds two spaces on the right. The script is inspired by (ripped off) the instructions for using external commands in the i3status manpage.