moved sleep notifier module to right, made workspace buttons clickable, made the script a bit more easier to understand

3 files changed, 44 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/lemonbar/button-actions b/lemonbar/button-actions
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..bebf6635
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lemonbar/button-actions
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/python
+
+# this script is a somewhat hacky way to switch workspaces
+# by clicking the workspaces on the lemonbar
+# written by Vidhu Kant Sharma for his herbstluftwm lemonbar
+# the output from the launch script should be piped into this
+
+import os
+
+print('scripts launched')
+while True:
+    action = input()
+
+    os.system('herbstclient use_index ' + action)
diff --git a/lemonbar/launch b/lemonbar/launch
index 8390171a..1f521365 100755
--- a/lemonbar/launch
+++ b/lemonbar/launch
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-./mainbar | lemonbar -g 1366x21  -B '#171520' -p -F '#ffffff' -f "Source Han Sans JP:size=10" -o -3 -f "RobotoMono Nerd Font:style=Regular:size=15" -f -n "mainbar" -o 0
+# this script executes the mainbar script
+# then pipes it into lemonbar
+# and pipes the lemonbar's output
+# to the button-actions script 
+# which handles all the button actions
+
+./mainbar | lemonbar -g 1366x21  -B '#171520' -p -F '#ffffff' -f "Source Han Sans JP:size=10" -o -3 -f "RobotoMono Nerd Font:style=Regular:size=15" -f -n "mainbar" -o 0 | ./button-actions
 
 echo "lemonbar launched"
 
diff --git a/lemonbar/mainbar b/lemonbar/mainbar
index 7bf7ecf4..6e9873b6 100755
--- a/lemonbar/mainbar
+++ b/lemonbar/mainbar
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 # kinda minimal lemonbar script by Vidhu Kant Sharma
 # for herbstluftwm
-# needs roboto, foboto nerd and adobe hans sans jp fonts
+# needs japanese fonts and powerline fonts to be installed
+# edit the fonts in the launch script
+
+# changing the color schemes is going to be hell
 
 import datetime
 import time
@@ -10,20 +13,21 @@ import os
 
 
 day_name = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday','Sunday']  # to make day names more readable 
+
+# japanese tag names
 tag_names = { 
-        '1':'一',
-        '2':'二',
-        '3':'三',
-        '4':'四',
-        '5':'五',
-        '6':'六',
-        '7':'七',
-        '8':'八',
-        '9':'九',
-        '0':'十'
+        '1':'%{A:0:}一%{A}',
+        '2':'%{A:1:}二%{A}',
+        '3':'%{A:2:}三%{A}',
+        '4':'%{A:3:}四%{A}',
+        '5':'%{A:4:}五%{A}',
+        '6':'%{A:5:}六%{A}',
+        '7':'%{A:6:}七%{A}',
+        '8':'%{A:7:}八%{A}',
+        '9':'%{A:8:}九%{A}',
+        '0':'%{A:9:}十%{A}'
 }
 
-# decoration variables
 
 def getTags():
     tags = os.popen("herbstclient tag_status").read().split()  # get tags in a list
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ def getTags():
         else:
             tags[i] = '%{F#443837} ' + tag_names[tag[1]] + '%{F-} ' # format other tags
 
-    return '%{A4:NEXT:}%{A5:PREV:}%{B#6c71c4}  ' + ' '.join((str(x) for x in tags)) + '%{B-}' + '%{F#268bd2}%{F-}%{A}%{A}'  # return formatted list in a cleaner form
+    return '%{B#6c71c4}  ' + ' '.join((str(x) for x in tags)) + '%{B-}' + '%{F#268bd2}%{F-}'  # return formatted list in a cleaner form
 
 
 def getTime():
@@ -47,15 +51,15 @@ def getTime():
     day = "(" + day_name[day_raw] + ")"  # day but in a more readable form
     time = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H:%M")  # time in H:M format
 
-    return '%{F#CB4B16}%{F-}%{B#CB4B16}  ' + date + day + ' ' + time + '  %{B-}'
+    return '%{B#171520}%{F#CB4B16}%{F-}%{B#CB4B16}  ' + date + day + ' ' + time + '  %{B-}'
 
 def sleepNotifier():
-    if int(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%M")) < 6:
-        return "%{c}%{F#171520}%{B#dc322f} Go to sleep! %{B-}%{F-}"
+    if int(datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%H")) < 6:  # executes between 12 and 6 a.m.
+        return "%{F#dc322f}%{F-}%{B#dc322f} Go to sleep! %{F#171520}%{B-}%{F-}"  # prompt me to go to sleep when it's late
     else:
         return ""
 
 while True:
-    time.sleep(0.3)
-    output = getTags() + '%{r}' + getTime() + sleepNotifier()
-    os.system("echo '" + output  + "'")
+    time.sleep(0.3)  # be nice to the CPU
+    output = getTags() + '%{r}' + sleepNotifier() + getTime()
+    os.system("echo '" + output  + "'")  # for some reason print() messes up everything