How to have title padding

[Abhra00]

How to title padding like this and one thing I have also applied winicon patch

[bakkeby]

Judging from what I can see in the screenshot we have that:

• the window title is no wider than the title itself and
• we have italic text

The width of the window title makes me believe that what was used here was the fancybar patch, which only allocates enough space to print the entire title. The window title of the focused window takes priority and is generally shown in full, while the remaining space is shared among the other window titles which may be truncated.

This is contrary to the awesomebar patch which divides the available space evenly across the window titles.

The fancybar patch can be enabled using the following toggle:

dwm-flexipatch/patches.def.h

Lines 56 to 62 in 1c8c21c

	/* This patch shows the titles of all visible windows in the status bar
	* (as opposed to showing only the selected one).
	* Awesomebar takes precedence over fancybar. Fancybar takes precedence over
	* the centeredwindowname patch.
	* https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/fancybar/
	*/
	#define BAR_FANCYBAR_PATCH 0

As for the italic text you can look for fonts that are italic with the following command:

fc-list :italic

Then it is just a matter of setting the desired font as the primary font in config.h, e.g.:

static const char *fonts[] = { "Monaspace Krypton Var:style=SemiWide Italic:size=16" };

The winicon patch can be enabled using the following toggle if desired:

dwm-flexipatch/patches.def.h

Line 206 in 1c8c21c

#define BAR_WINICON_PATCH 0

The winicon patch also requires some lines in config.mk to be uncommented to include additional libraries.

dwm-flexipatch/config.mk

Lines 31 to 32 in 1c8c21c

	# Uncomment this for the alpha patch and the winicon patch (BAR_ALPHA_PATCH, BAR_WINICON_PATCH)
	#XRENDER = -lXrender

dwm-flexipatch/config.mk

Lines 51 to 52 in 1c8c21c

	# This is needed for the winicon and tagpreview patches / BAR_WINICON_PATCH / BAR_TAGPREVIEW_PATCH
	#IMLIB2LIBS = -lImlib2

Combined we get a look and feel like this:

[Abhra00]

I want some padding in top and bottom

[bakkeby]

Right, there is no padding in the example screenshot.

There is the bar height patch that would effectively add inner vertical padding for the bar, but the background of the selected tag and window title will span the full height of the bar, e.g.

That is not used in the screenshot.

Then we have the bar padding patch which will add outer gaps at the monitor edges.

There is no gap between the bar and the window area in this case. That is because this is generally expected to be used in combination with a window gaps patch.

The above is also not used in the screenshot unless it is not visible due to cropping.

So I think that what you are after here is the bar border patch which adds a border around the bar to give it the same look and feel as the windows.

That can be enabled using this toggle:

dwm-flexipatch/patches.def.h

Lines 288 to 291 in 1c8c21c

	/* This patch adds a border around the status bar(s) just like the border of client windows.
	* https://codemadness.org/paste/dwm-border-bar.patch
	*/
	#define BAR_BORDER_PATCH 0

Then it is just a matter of ensuring that the border has the same colour as the general background:

static char normbgcolor[]                = "#222222";
static char normbordercolor[]            = "#222222";

Note that if used in combination with the alpha patch the background and border will have different colours as the border is not subject to transparency.

[Abhra00]

Thankyou sir

[Abhra00]

can I change the alpha behavior
like I want to use same color even if I use alpha patch
and somewhat the larger borderpx making the underlinetag overlapping with the tag text itself and i am also using statuspadding patch

[bakkeby]

The border is drawn by this code:

dwm-flexipatch/dwm.c

Lines 1932 to 1935 in 1c8c21c

	if (bar->borderpx) {
	XSetForeground(drw->dpy, drw->gc, scheme[bar->borderscheme][ColBorder].pixel);
	XFillRectangle(drw->dpy, drw->drawable, drw->gc, 0, 0, bar->bw, bar->bh);
	}

The scheme[bar->borderscheme][ColBorder].pixel is the colour that is passed to XSetForeground to draw the border, while XFillRectangle is what is doing the actual drawing.

To make the border transparent we will need to change that pixel colour to include an alpha value.

The colour scheme used by the border is SchemeNorm and this is set here in the createmon function:

dwm-flexipatch/dwm.c

Lines 1725 to 1727 in 1c8c21c

	bar->bh = bh + bar->borderpx * 2;
	bar->borderscheme = SchemeNorm;
	}

To enable alpha for the bar border you have two approaches:

1. Create a new colour scheme

E.g. SchemeBorder, by adding it to the enum defined in dwm.c:

dwm-flexipatch/dwm.c

Lines 187 to 190 in 1c8c21c

	SchemeFlexInaFloat,
	SchemeFlexSelFloat,
	#endif // BAR_FLEXWINTITLE_PATCH
	}; /* color schemes */

Then in the alphas array add the new colour scheme specifying an alpha value for the border.

	[SchemeBorder]       = { OPAQUE, baralpha, baralpha },

and then make sure to add the same colours for the new scheme to the colors array.

	[SchemeBorder]       = { normfgcolor,      normbgcolor,      normbordercolor,      normfloatcolor },

or

2. Use the background colour for the bar border

	if (bar->borderpx) {
-		XSetForeground(drw->dpy, drw->gc, scheme[bar->borderscheme][ColBorder].pixel);
+		XSetForeground(drw->dpy, drw->gc, scheme[bar->borderscheme][ColBg].pixel);
		XFillRectangle(drw->dpy, drw->drawable, drw->gc, 0, 0, bar->bw, bar->bh);
	}

I suppose the latter could be a patch option.

[bakkeby]

and somewhat the larger borderpx making the underlinetag overlapping with the tag text itself and i am also using statuspadding patch

I can confirm that this was a bug. I have pushed a fix for this.

[Abhra00]

Thank you a lot 🙏

[Abhra00]

Awesomebar patch making status text disappear when there is many windows on the workspace

[bakkeby]

There are indeed edge cases like this, I think in particular if also using the winicon patch. If this is problematic then one approach could be to simply stop drawing window titles if there is not enough space for them.

[Abhra00]

Yes I am also using winicon patch
Can you provide me some solution

And how awesome wm handles this issue

[Abhra00]

I think it is not much of a big issue because it only happens after 20 clients