Conky - bspwm-desktops

Draws desktop of BSPWM in a conky panel.

A vertical conky, scale = 80

An horizontal conky, scale = 40

Installation

TIMTOWTDI, but for example :

cd
mkdir -p .config/conky/lua
cd .config/conky/lua
git clone https://github.com/drasill/conky-bspwm-desktops.git bspwm-desktops

Dependencies

You'll need the dkjson lua package :

sudo luarocks install dkjson

Usage

In your conky settings, simply add lua_load with the full path of bspwm-desktops, and a call to the bspwm-desktops function.

conky.config = {
   -- ...
	lua_load = '~/.config/conky/lua/bspwm-desktops/bspwm-desktops.lua',
   -- ...
}

conky.text = [[
...
...
${desktop_name}
${lua bspwm_desktops 10 20 80}
...
...
...
]]

Arguments to bspwm-desktops are as follow :

bspwm-desktops x y scale

with :

• x, y : top-left position of the widget
• scale : desktop representation scale

For exemple, if your desktop have a 1920x1080 size, a scale of 80 will display your desktops as 24x13 pixels rectangles.

Using conky's $desktop_name seems to be working, and is a nice addition.

Layout

The script displays the desktops from left to right, then top to bottom, depending on the conky panel's width.

Contributions

... are very welcome !

But the code is really quick'n dirty, even if simple.