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Currently focused window
This block displays the title and/or the active marks (when used with sway/i3) of the currently
focused window. Supported WMs are: sway, i3 and most wlroots-based compositors. See driver
option for more info.
§Configuration
| Key | Values | Default |
|---|---|---|
format | A string to customise the output of this block. See below for available placeholders. | " $title.str(max_w:21) |" |
driver | Which driver to use. Available values: sway_ipc - for i3 and sway, wlr_toplevel_management - for Wayland compositors that implement wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1, auto - try to automatically guess which driver to use. | "auto" |
| Placeholder | Value | Type | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
title | Window’s title (may be absent) | Text | - |
marks | Window’s marks (present only with sway/i3) | Text | - |
visible_marks | Window’s marks that do not start with _ (present only with sway/i3) | Text | - |
§Example
[[block]]
block = "focused_window"
[block.format]
full = " $title.str(max_w:15) |"
short = " $title.str(max_w:10) |"This example instead of hiding block when the window’s title is empty displays “Missing”
[[block]]
block = "focused_window"
format = " $title.str(0,21) | Missing "