Python scripts for openbox and tint2. The code also may be adapted as i3 status apps and so forth.

• dev-python/pygobject
• dev-python/pygtk
• dev-python/libwnck-python
• x11-libs/libwnck
• app-misc/jq

Volume applet uses gtk3 and ctypes calls to pulsaudio.

Keyboard applet uses gtk3, ctypes and xcb http://xcb.freedesktop.org/ with the xkb extension http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB/ (enabled by default on the most systems). I don't use xpyb, because it is too old and some people claim that it has memory leaks. The text icons are rendered with Cairo.

1. Acts as Maximus. On every "maximize" event it undecorates window and turns on decorations when window is restored.
2. Adds an icon (tray and window title) for every new feh window.

Note: you can use "mouse_right = maximize_restore" in a tint2rc file to restore maximized windows with mouse. It uses gtk2 because python GI is still buggy with wnck and assigning icons.

The daemon uses ctypes and xcb with record extension http://xcb.freedesktop.org/manual/group__XCB__Record__API.html. It executes commands on mouse clicks at edges of a screen. I use a right click on the top of a screen to exit the fullscreen mode and clicks on the right and left edges to switch between workspaces.

A simple gtk3 Calendar application. I use it on click on the clock in the tint2 panel.

A patch to enable a tmux-like "zoom" mode: to maximize a container and to don't hide an i3bar. The daemon daemon.py marks the workspaces containing zoomed windows. You can start it in an i3 config 'exec --no-startup-id python /path/to/daemon.py', to reconnect in case an ipc socket was changed 'echo reconnect > /path/to/daemons/fifo'. It uses "i3ipc-python" package with the "zoomed" property added.

Workspace switch patch There's also another patch file, which changes the behaviour of "next_on_output" and "prev_on_ouput" commands, it swithes to the first workspace on the next output from the last workspace on the current output and vice versa. It's added to the Gentoo ebuild and the shell script.

From source (4.18.2)

# needs dev dependencies specific for a distribution
# e.g. https://github.com/i3/i3/blob/4.18.2/debian/control
git clone https://github.com/mishurov/applets
cd applets/i3patch
git clone https://github.com/i3/i3
cd i3
git checkout 4.18.2
git apply ../files/add_zoom_i3_4.18.2.patch
aclocal && autoheader && automake --add-missing && autoconf
./configure
cd ./x86_64-pc-linux-gnu && make -j4
sudo make install

Gentoo (local ebuild, 4.13)

git clone https://github.com/mishurov/applets
cd applets/i3patch
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/portage/x11-wm/i3
sudo cp ./i3-4.13-r1.ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-wm/i3
sudo cp -r ./files /usr/local/portage/x11-wm/i3
sudo ebuild /usr/local/portage/x11-wm/i3/i3-4.13-r1.ebuild manifest clean merge
echo "x11-wm/i3::gentoo" | sudo tee --append /etc/portage/package.mask

FreeBSD (custom port, 4.10.4)

git clone https://github.com/mishurov/applets
cd applets/i3patch
sudo cp -r ./files ./freebsd/
cd ./freebsd
make install clean
# and place "freebsd" directory to your sources location

Debian Jessie-backports (4.13)

apt install -y \
devscripts \
dh-autoreconf \
libxcb-util0-dev \
libxcb-keysyms1-dev \
libxcb-xinerama0-dev \
libxcb-icccm4-dev \
libxcb-cursor-dev \
libxcb-xrm-dev \
libxcb-xkb-dev \
libxkbcommon-x11-dev \
asciidoc \
xmlto \
docbook-xml \
libev-dev \
libyajl-dev \
libstartup-notification0-dev \
libcairo2-dev

git clone https://github.com/mishurov/applets
mkdir i3wm
cd i3wm

wget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/i3-wm/i3-wm_4.13.orig.tar.bz2
tar xf i3-wm_4.13.orig.tar.bz2
rm i3-wm_4.13.orig.tar.bz2
cd i3-4.13
git apply ../../applets/i3patch/files/add_zoom_i3_4.13.patch
cd ..
tar -cvjSf i3-wm_4.13.orig.tar.bz2 i3-4.13

wget http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/i3-wm/i3-wm_4.13-1~bpo8+1.debian.tar.xz
tar xf i3-wm_4.13-1\~bpo8+1.debian.tar.xz
mv debian i3-4.13
cd i3-4.13

dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us

cd ..

sudo apt-get remove i3
sudo dpkg -i i3-wm_4.13-1\~bpo8+1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get -t jessie-backports install i3

Simple boilerplates for PyQT 5

The directory drafts contains the various attempts to make the applets with the diffrerent python and gtk versions, using subprocess to run background daemons, alsa instead of pulseaudio, handle UNIX signals in gtk3 and so forth.