Styles¶

• Styles
  • Box model
  • Cascading
    • All
  • Substyles
  • Styleable items
    • Clients
    • Separator
    • Sublets
      • Separator
    • Subtle
    • Title
    • Views
      • Focus
      • Occupied
      • Urgent
      • Visible
      • Separator
  • Properties
    • Foreground
    • Background
    • Font
    • Margin
    • Border
    • Padding
    • Active
    • Icon
    • Inactive
    • Panel
    • Separator
    • Stipple
    • Width
    • Min_width

Styles are used to define various properties of styleable items in a CSS-like syntax.

Box model¶

Every styleable items item consists of different boxes, whereas each box includes the previous one. The size of a box is determined by the size required to include the previous one and a value for each side of the box: top, right, bottom, left (The values are ordered clockwise)

Here is a layout for better understanding:

                                     Top
     +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
     |                              Margin                             |
     |        +-----------------------------------------------+        |
     |        |                     Border                    |        |
     |        |        +-----------------------------+        |        |
     |        |        |           Padding           |        |        |
     |        |        |         +---------+         |        |        |
Left | Margin | Border | Padding | Content | Padding | Border | Margin | Right
     |        |        |         +---------+         |        |        |
     |        |        |           Padding           |        |        |
     |        |        +-----------------------------+        |        |
     |        |                    Border                     |        |
     |        +-----------------------------------------------+        |
     |                             Margin                              |
     +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
                                   Bottom

The various properties of a style have different meanings for each box:

Property	Meaning
foreground	Sets the foreground color of the content box
background	Sets the background color of the content and the padding box
border	Sets the background color of the border box (per side)

Cascading¶

Like CSS syntax, styles in subtle support simple cascading. That means that properties set for All are inherited by other styleable items.

All¶

Defines properties for most of the styleable elements.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Icon

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :all do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      "#303030", 0
4   foreground  "#fecf35" 
5   background  "#202020" 
6 end

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Substyles¶

Styles can contain nested styles, that inherit values from their parent. The default config uses this syntax to define styles for :focus, :occupied, :unoccupied and :urgent.

Sublets automatically check for a substyle matching to their name and otherwise fallback to the :sublets style.

Styleable items¶

Clients¶

Defines properties for active and inactive clients.

Supported properties: Margin, Active, Inactive, Width

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :clients do
2   active      "#303030", 2
3   inactive    "#202020", 2
4   margin      0
5   width       50
6 end

Separator¶

Defines properties for the panel separator.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Font, Separator

Inherits from: All

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :separator do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      0
4   background  "#202020" 
5   foreground  "#757575" 
6 end

Sublets¶

Defines properties for sublets in the panel.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Font

Inherits from: All

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :sublets do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      "#303030", 0
4   foreground  "#757575" 
5   background  "#202020" 
6 end

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Separator¶

Defines properties for the sublet separator.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Font, Separator

Inherits from: Sublets

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :separator do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      0
4   background  "#202020" 
5   foreground  "#757575" 
6 end

Subtle¶

Defines properties for subtle.

Supported properties: Background, Padding, Panel, Stipple

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :subtle do
2   panel       "#202020" 
3   background  "#3d3d3d" 
4   stipple     "#757575" 
5 end

Title¶

Defines properties for the title of current client.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Font

Inherits from: All

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :title do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      "#303030", 0
4   foreground  "#fecf35" 
5   background  "#202020" 
6 end

Views¶

Defines properties for view-related styleable elements.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Icon, Font

Inherits from: All

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :views do
2   background  "#202020" 
3 end

Focus¶

Defines properties for current active view.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Icon, Font

Inherits from: Views

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :focus do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      "#303030", 0
4   foreground  "#fecf35" 
5   background  "#202020" 
6 end

Occupied¶

Defines properties for views with at least one client.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Icon, Font

Inherits from: Views

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :occupied do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      "#303030", 0
4   foreground  "#b8b8b8" 
5   background  "#202020" 
6 end

Urgent¶

Defines properties for views with urgent clients.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Icon, Font

Inherits from:

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :urgent do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      "#303030", 0
4   foreground  "#ff9800" 
5   background  "#202020" 
6 end

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Visible¶

Defines properties for views that are visible on any screen.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Icon, Font

Inherits from:

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :visible do
2   border-top "#303030", 2
3 end

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Separator¶

Defines properties for the views separator.

Supported properties: Foreground, Background, Margin, Border, Padding, Min_width, Font, Separator

Inherits from: Views

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :separator do
2   padding     0, 0, 0, 0
3   border      0
4   background  "#202020" 
5   foreground  "#757575" 
6 end

Properties¶

Following properties can be set for supported items:

Foreground¶

This property sets the foreground/text color.

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :title do
2   foreground "#fecf35" 
3 end

Background¶

This property sets the background color.

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :title do
2   background "#202020" 
3 end

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Font¶

This property sets the font and expects a string. The font string can either be from xfontsel or a valid XFT font description.

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :all do
2   font  "-*-*-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" 
3   #font "xft:sans-8" 
4 end

Margin¶

This property sets a transparent (no background) outer spacing in given directions. Following notations are supported:

1 margin 2	Set space for all four directions
1 margin 2, 2	Set space for top/bottom and left/right
1 margin 2, 2, 2	Set space for top, left/right and bottom (top, right, bottom, left)
1 margin 2, 2, 2, 2	Set space for all four directions
1 margin_top 2	Set space for top side
1 margin_right 2	Set space for right side
1 margin_bottom 2	Set space for bottom side
1 margin_left 2	Set space for left side

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off 1 style :title do
 2   margin 2
 3 end
 4 
 5 style :title do
 6   margin 2, 2
 7 end
 8 
 9 style :title do
10   margin_top 2
11 end

Border¶

This property sets the border color and size. Following notations are supported:

1 border "#303030", 0	Set border color and size of all four borders
1 border_top "#303030", 0	Set border color and size of top border
1 border_right "#303030", 0	Set border color and size of right border
1 border_bottom "#303030", 0	Set border color and size of bottom border
1 border_left "#303030", 0	Set border color and size of left border

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :title do
2   border "#303030", 0
3 end
4 
5 style :title do
6   border_top    "#303030", 0
7 end

Padding¶

This property sets an inner spacing between border and content in given directions. Following notations are supported:

1 padding 2	Set space for all four directions
1 padding 2, 2	Set space for top/bottom and left/right
1 padding 2, 2, 2	Set space for top, left/right and bottom (top, right, bottom, left)
1 padding 2, 2, 2, 2	Set space for all four directions
1 padding_top 2	Set space for top side
1 padding_right 2	Set space for right side
1 padding_bottom 2	Set space for bottom side
1 padding_left 2	Set space for left side

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible, Subtle

Example:

Numbers: on /off 1 style :title do
 2   padding 2
 3 end
 4 
 5 style :title do
 6   padding 2, 2
 7 end
 8 
 9 style :title do
10   padding_top 2
11 end

Active¶

This property sets the border color and size of the current active client.

Applicable to: Clients

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :clients do
2   active "#303030", 2
3 end

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Icon¶

This property sets the color of any icons in this panel item.

Applicable to: All, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :views do
2   icon "#303030" 
3 end

Inactive¶

This property sets the border color and size of all other clients.

Applicable to: Clients

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :clients do
2   inactive "#202020", 2
3 end

Panel¶

This property sets the panel color. Following notations are supported:

1 panel "#000000"	Set color of both panels
1 panel_top "#000000"	Set color of top panel
1 panel_bottom "#000000"	Set color of bottom panel

Applicable to: Subtle

Example:

1 style :subtle do
2   panel "#202020" 
3 end
4 
5 style :subtle do
6   panel_top    "#202020" 
7   panel_bottom "#202020" 
8 end

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Separator¶

This property sets the separator string.

Applicable to: Separator

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :separator do
2   separator "|" 
3 end

Stipple¶

This property sets the color of the panel stippling if any.

Applicable to: Subtle

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :subtle do
2   stipple "#757575" 
3 end

Width¶

This property sets the string length in character, default is 50 characters.

Applicable to: Clients

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :clients do
2   width 50
3 end

Min_width¶

This property sets the min. pixel width of a panel item.

Applicable to: All, Title, Focus, Urgent, Occupied, Views, Sublets, Separator, Visible

Example:

Numbers: on /off1 style :title do
2   min_width 50
3 end