Center a block on i3bar? about i3blocks HOT 13 CLOSED

Hi @nim-,

This is indeed a good example! While this configuration is not portable, you can easy acheive this by setting the min_width (as @bchretien correctly suggested) of a single block to the width of your current resolution.

For instance, ~/.config/i3/config:

bar {
  position top
  workspace_buttons yes
  status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3blocks/wintitle.conf
}

bar {
  position bottom
  workspace_buttons no
  status_command i3blocks
  ...
}

and ~/.config/i3blocks/wintitle.conf:

[window title]
command=xdotool getactivewindow getwindowname
interval=3
color=#A6D1FA
min_width=1366
align=center

I added an entry in the FAQ for that. (I am currently using this setup now, thanks!).

Maybe @stapelberg would be interested in adding an align=<left|center|right> to i3bar?

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Hi, sorry if I was being unclear.

I'm not talking about align text within a block, I'm talking about aligning a block on the center of i3bar.
In the same way the "moist@thinkpad ~" window title is centered here (I believe this is bspwm with BAR):
http://i.imgur.com/2Q7lPA4.png

Of course, I don't know if this is possible, but it would surely be amazing.

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Primero pido disculpa PorQue mi PREGUNTA esta muy fuera del tema!
@bchretien
you use i3bar?
as you did to change the separator character ?

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I did not even know i3bar protocol allowed us to specify alignment. Now that I know, I agree with you it'd be cool to have i3blocks support this !

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The align option of the i3bar protocol is already supported AFAIK.

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I don't think that's possible since this is a limit of i3bar. You can achieve something similar by playing with align and min_width, but that would depend on the rest of the bar and the screen size.

For example:

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Ah, I see. I'll try working with that then. Thanks.

Sorry for cluttering up the issues page if this is an i3bar limit.

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Well, more people may be wondering about the same thing so this is actually useful. Note that the trick I gave you won't work on a multiscreen setup if you have different resolutions, so this is extremely limited.

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@vivien Thank you! Works beautifully when set to the width of my monitors resolution.

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@vivien, we already have align=<left|center|right>, see http://i3wm.org/docs/i3bar-protocol.html

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@stapelberg, sorry, I meant an align option for the bar blocks, i.e.:

bar {
  position top
  workspace_buttons yes
  status_command i3blocks -c ~/.config/i3blocks/wintitle.conf
  align center
}

So blocks (one or more) would be centered in the bar, as i3bar knows the resolution of the current monitor.

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@vivien Such a feature was accepted, but no one submitted a patch yet. See http://bugs.i3wm.org/report/ticket/1148

However, this feature is not exactly what was asked for here as only one particular block should be aligned.

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Hi, just for information: I want to start developing the features discussed here. The discussion is at i3/i3#1148.

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