Built-in Widgets

AGroupBox

class libqtile.widget.AGroupBox(**config)

A widget that graphically displays the current group

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border	'000000'	group box border color
borderwidth	3	Current group border width
center_aligned	True	center-aligned group box
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
margin	3	Margin inside the box
margin_x	None	X Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
margin_y	None	Y Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
padding_x	None	X Padding. Overrides 'padding' if set
padding_y	None	Y Padding. Overrides 'padding' if set

Backlight

class libqtile.widget.Backlight(**config)

A simple widget to show the current brightness of a monitor.

If the change_command parameter is set to None, the widget will attempt to use the interface at /sys/class to change brightness. Depending on the setup, the user may need to be added to the video group to have permission to write to this interface. This depends on having the correct udev rules the brightness file; these are typically installed alongside brightness tools such as brightnessctl (which changes the group to 'video') so installing that is an easy way to get it working.

You can also bind keyboard shortcuts to the backlight widget with:

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
backlight_name	'acpi_video0'	ACPI name of a backlight device
brightness_file	'brightness'	Name of file with the current brightness in /sys/class/backlight/backlight_name
change_command	'xbacklight -set {0}'	Execute command to change value
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{percent:2.0%}'	Display format
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_brightness_file	'max_brightness'	Name of file with the maximum brightness in /sys/class/backlight/backlight_name
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
step	10	Percent of backlight every scroll changed
update_interval	0.2	The delay in seconds between updates

Battery

class libqtile.widget.Battery(**config)

A text-based battery monitoring widget currently supporting FreeBSD

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
battery	0	Which battery should be monitored (battery number or name)
charge_char	'^'	Character to indicate the battery is charging
discharge_char	'V'	Character to indicate the battery is discharging
empty_char	'x'	Character to indicate the battery is empty
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{char} {percent:2.0%} {hour:d}:{min:02d} {watt:.2f} W'	Display format
full_char	'='	Character to indicate the battery is full
hide_threshold	None	Hide the text when there is enough energy 0 <= x < 1
low_background	None	Background color on low battery
low_foreground	'FF0000'	Font color on low battery
low_percentage	0.1	Indicates when to use the low_foreground color 0 < x < 1
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
notification_timeout	10	Time in seconds to display notification. 0 for no expiry.
notify_below	None	Send a notification below this battery level.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
show_short_text	True	Show "Full" or "Empty" rather than formated text
unknown_char	'?'	Character to indicate the battery status is unknown
update_interval	60	Seconds between status updates

BatteryIcon

class libqtile.widget.BatteryIcon(**config)

Battery life indicator widget.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
battery	0	Which battery should be monitored
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
scale	1	Scale factor relative to the bar height. Defaults to 1
theme_path	'/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/qtile/checkouts/v0.21.0/libqtile/resources/battery-icons'	Path of the icons
update_interval	60	Seconds between status updates

Bluetooth

class libqtile.widget.Bluetooth(**config)

Displays bluetooth status or connected device.

Uses dbus to communicate with the system bus.

Widget requirements: dbus-next.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
hci	'/dev_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX'	hci0 device path, can be found with d-feet or similar dbus explorer.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.

CPU

class libqtile.widget.CPU(**config)

A simple widget to display CPU load and frequency.

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'CPU {freq_current}GHz {load_percent}%'	CPU display format
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	1.0	Update interval for the CPU widget

CPUGraph

class libqtile.widget.CPUGraph(**config)

Display CPU usage graph.

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	type='box'
	type='line'
	type='line', line_width=1
	start_pos='top'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border_color	'215578'	Widget border color
border_width	2	Widget border width
core	'all'	Which core to show (all/0/1/2/...)
fill_color	'1667EB.3'	Fill color for linefill graph
frequency	1	Update frequency in seconds
graph_color	'18BAEB'	Graph color
line_width	3	Line width
margin_x	3	Margin X
margin_y	3	Margin Y
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
samples	100	Count of graph samples.
start_pos	'bottom'	Drawer starting position ('bottom'/'top')
type	'linefill'	'box', 'line', 'linefill'

Canto

class libqtile.widget.Canto(**config)

Display RSS feeds updates using the canto console reader

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
all_format	'{number}'	All feeds display format
background	None	Widget background color
feeds	[]	List of feeds to display, empty for all
fetch	False	Whether to fetch new items on update
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
one_format	'{name}: {number}'	One feed display format
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.

CapsNumLockIndicator

class libqtile.widget.CapsNumLockIndicator(**config)

Really simple widget to show the current Caps/Num Lock state.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	0.5	Update Time in seconds.

CheckUpdates

class libqtile.widget.CheckUpdates(**config)

Shows number of pending updates in different unix systems.

Note

It is common for package managers to return a non-zero code when there are no updates. As a result, the widget will treat any error as if there are no updates. If you are using a custom commmand/script, you should therefore ensure that it returns zero when it completes if you wish to see the output of your command.

In addition, as no errors are recorded to the log, if the widget is showing no updates and you believe that to be incorrect, you should run the appropriate command in a terminal to view any error messages.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	no_update_string='No updates'
	no_update_string='No updates'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
colour_have_updates	'ffffff'	Colour when there are updates.
colour_no_updates	'ffffff'	Colour when there's no updates.
custom_command	None	Custom shell command for checking updates (counts the lines of the output)
custom_command_modify	<function CheckUpdates.<lambda> at 0x7f9e138cbb50>	Lambda function to modify line count from custom_command
display_format	'Updates: {updates}'	Display format if updates available
distro	'Arch'	Name of your distribution
execute	None	Command to execute on click
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
no_update_string	''	String to display if no updates available
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
restart_indicator	''	Indicator to represent reboot is required. (Ubuntu only)
update_interval	60	Update interval in seconds.

Chord

class libqtile.widget.Chord(width=CALCULATED, **config)

Display current key chord

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	chords_colors={'vim mode': ('2980b9', 'ffffff')}

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
chords_colors	{}	colors per chord in form of tuple ('bg', 'fg').
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
name_transform	<function Chord.<lambda> at 0x7f9e138cbeb0>	preprocessor for chord name it is pure function string -> string
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.

Clipboard

class libqtile.widget.Clipboard(width=CALCULATED, **config)

Display current clipboard contents

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
blacklist	['keepassx']	list with blacklisted wm_class, sadly not every clipboard window sets them, keepassx does.Clipboard contents from blacklisted wm_classes will be replaced by the value of blacklist_text.
blacklist_text	'***********'	text to display when the wm_class is blacklisted
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
max_width	10	maximum number of characters to display (None for all, useful when width is bar.STRETCH)
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
selection	'CLIPBOARD'	the selection to display(CLIPBOARD or PRIMARY)
timeout	10	Default timeout (seconds) for display text, None to keep forever

Clock

class libqtile.widget.Clock(**config)

A simple but flexible text-based clock

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	format='%d/%m/%y %H:%M'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'%H:%M'	A Python datetime format string
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
timezone	None	The timezone to use for this clock, either as string if pytz or dateutil is installed (e.g. "US/Central" or anything in /usr/share/zoneinfo), or as tzinfo (e.g. datetime.timezone.utc). None means the system local timezone and is the default.
update_interval	1.0	Update interval for the clock

Cmus

class libqtile.widget.Cmus(**config)

A simple Cmus widget.

Show the artist and album of now listening song and allow basic mouse control from the bar:

• toggle pause (or play if stopped) on left click;

• skip forward in playlist on scroll up;

• skip backward in playlist on scroll down.

Cmus (https://cmus.github.io) should be installed.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
noplay_color	'cecece'	Text colour when not playing.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
play_color	'00ff00'	Text colour when playing.
update_interval	0.5	Update Time in seconds.

Countdown

class libqtile.widget.Countdown(**config)

A simple countdown timer text widget

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	date=datetime.datetime(2022, 3, 24, 12, 27, 22, 343447)

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
date	datetime.datetime(2022, 3, 23, 9, 53, 3, 39069)	The datetime for the end of the countdown
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{D}d {H}h {M}m {S}s'	Format of the displayed text. Available variables:{D} == days, {H} == hours, {M} == minutes, {S} seconds.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	1.0	Update interval in seconds for the clock

CryptoTicker

class libqtile.widget.CryptoTicker(**config)

A cryptocurrency ticker widget, data provided by the coinbase.com API. Defaults to displaying currency in whatever the current locale is. Examples:

# display the average price of bitcoin in local currency widget.CryptoTicker()

# display it in Euros: widget.CryptoTicker(currency="EUR")

# or a different cryptocurrency! widget.CryptoTicker(crypto="ETH")

# change the currency symbol: widget.CryptoTicker(currency="EUR", symbol="€")

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	format='{crypto}:{amount:,.2f}'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
crypto	'BTC'	The cryptocurrency to display.
currency	''	The baseline currency that the value of the crypto is displayed in.
data	None	Post Data
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{crypto}: {symbol}{amount:.2f}'	Display string formatting.
headers	{}	Extra Headers
json	True	Is Json?
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse	None	Parse Function
symbol	''	The symbol for the baseline currency.
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.
url	None	Url
user_agent	'Qtile'	Set the user agent
xml	False	Is XML?

CurrentLayout

class libqtile.widget.CurrentLayout(width=CALCULATED, **config)

Display the name of the current layout of the current group of the screen, the bar containing the widget, is on.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.

CurrentLayoutIcon

class libqtile.widget.CurrentLayoutIcon(**config)

Display the icon representing the current layout of the current group of the screen on which the bar containing the widget is.

If you are using custom layouts, a default icon with question mark will be displayed for them. If you want to use custom icon for your own layout, for example, FooGrid, then create a file named "layout-foogrid.png" and place it in ~/.icons directory. You can as well use other directories, but then you need to specify those directories in custom_icon_paths argument for this plugin.

The order of icon search is:

• dirs in custom_icon_paths config argument

• ~/.icons

• built-in qtile icons

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
custom_icon_paths	[]	List of folders where to search icons beforeusing built-in icons or icons in ~/.icons dir. This can also be used to providemissing icons for custom layouts. Defaults to empty list.
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
scale	1	Scale factor relative to the bar height. Defaults to 1

CurrentScreen

class libqtile.widget.CurrentScreen(width=CALCULATED, **config)

Indicates whether the screen this widget is on is currently active or not

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	default

key	default	description
active_color	'00ff00'	Color when screen is active
active_text	'A'	Text displayed when the screen is active
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
inactive_color	'ff0000'	Color when screen is inactive
inactive_text	'I'	Text displayed when the screen is inactive
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.

DF

class libqtile.widget.DF(**config)

Disk Free Widget

By default the widget only displays if the space is less than warn_space.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	warn_space=40
	visible_on_warn=False

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{p} ({uf}{m}|{r:.0f}%)'	String format (p: partition, s: size, f: free space, uf: user free space, m: measure, r: ratio (uf/s))
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
measure	'G'	Measurement (G, M, B)
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
partition	'/'	the partition to check space
update_interval	60	The update interval.
visible_on_warn	True	Only display if warning
warn_color	'ff0000'	Warning color
warn_space	2	Warning space in scale defined by the measure option.

GenPollText

class libqtile.widget.GenPollText(**config)

A generic text widget that polls using poll function to get the text

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	func= at 0x7fe5fedd84c0>

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
func	None	Poll Function
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.

GenPollUrl

class libqtile.widget.GenPollUrl(**config)

A generic text widget that polls an url and parses it using parse function

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	url='http://test.qtile.org', json=False, parse= at 0x7fe5fec40160>

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
data	None	Post Data
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
headers	{}	Extra Headers
json	True	Is Json?
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse	None	Parse Function
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.
url	None	Url
user_agent	'Qtile'	Set the user agent
xml	False	Is XML?

GmailChecker

class libqtile.widget.GmailChecker(**config)

A simple gmail checker. If 'status_only_unseen' is True - set 'fmt' for one argument, ex. 'unseen: {0}'

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	username='qtile', password='qtile'
	username='qtile', password='qtile', display_fmt='unseen[{0}]', status_only_unseen=True

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
display_fmt	'inbox[{0}],unseen[{1}]'	Display format
email_path	'INBOX'	email_path
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
password	None	password
status_only_unseen	False	Only show unseen messages
update_interval	30	Update time in seconds.
username	None	username

GroupBox

class libqtile.widget.GroupBox(**config)

A widget that graphically displays the current group. All groups are displayed by their label. If the label of a group is the empty string that group will not be displayed.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	highlight_method='block'
	highlight_method='text'
	highlight_method='line'
	visible_groups=['1', '5', '6']

key	default	description
active	'FFFFFF'	Active group font colour
background	None	Widget background color
block_highlight_text_color	None	Selected group font colour
borderwidth	3	Current group border width
center_aligned	True	center-aligned group box
disable_drag	False	Disable dragging and dropping of group names on widget
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
hide_unused	False	Hide groups that have no windows and that are not displayed on any screen.
highlight_color	['000000', '282828']	Active group highlight color when using 'line' highlight method.
highlight_method	'border'	Method of highlighting ('border', 'block', 'text', or 'line')Uses *_border color settings
inactive	'404040'	Inactive group font colour
invert_mouse_wheel	False	Whether to invert mouse wheel group movement
margin	3	Margin inside the box
margin_x	None	X Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
margin_y	None	Y Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
other_current_screen_border	'404040'	Border or line colour for group on other screen when focused.
other_screen_border	'404040'	Border or line colour for group on other screen when unfocused.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
padding_x	None	X Padding. Overrides 'padding' if set
padding_y	None	Y Padding. Overrides 'padding' if set
rounded	True	To round or not to round box borders
spacing	None	Spacing between groups(if set to None, will be equal to margin_x)
this_current_screen_border	'215578'	Border or line colour for group on this screen when focused.
this_screen_border	'215578'	Border or line colour for group on this screen when unfocused.
urgent_alert_method	'border'	Method for alerting you of WM urgent hints (one of 'border', 'text', 'block', or 'line')
urgent_border	'FF0000'	Urgent border or line color
urgent_text	'FF0000'	Urgent group font color
use_mouse_wheel	True	Whether to use mouse wheel events
visible_groups	None	Groups that will be visible. If set to None or [], all groups will be visible.Visible groups are identified by name not by their displayed label.

HDDBusyGraph

class libqtile.widget.HDDBusyGraph(**config)

Display HDD busy time graph

Parses /sys/block/<dev>/stat file and extracts overall device IO usage, based on io_ticks's value. See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/block/stat.txt

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	type='box'
	type='line'
	type='line', line_width=1
	start_pos='top'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border_color	'215578'	Widget border color
border_width	2	Widget border width
device	'sda'	Block device to display info for
fill_color	'1667EB.3'	Fill color for linefill graph
frequency	1	Update frequency in seconds
graph_color	'18BAEB'	Graph color
line_width	3	Line width
margin_x	3	Margin X
margin_y	3	Margin Y
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
samples	100	Count of graph samples.
start_pos	'bottom'	Drawer starting position ('bottom'/'top')
type	'linefill'	'box', 'line', 'linefill'

HDDGraph

class libqtile.widget.HDDGraph(**config)

Display HDD free or used space graph

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	type='box'
	type='line'
	type='line', line_width=1
	start_pos='top'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border_color	'215578'	Widget border color
border_width	2	Widget border width
fill_color	'1667EB.3'	Fill color for linefill graph
frequency	1	Update frequency in seconds
graph_color	'18BAEB'	Graph color
line_width	3	Line width
margin_x	3	Margin X
margin_y	3	Margin Y
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
path	'/'	Partition mount point.
samples	100	Count of graph samples.
space_type	'used'	free/used
start_pos	'bottom'	Drawer starting position ('bottom'/'top')
type	'linefill'	'box', 'line', 'linefill'

IdleRPG

class libqtile.widget.IdleRPG(**config)

A widget for monitoring and displaying IdleRPG stats.

# display idlerpg stats for the player 'pants' on freenode's #idlerpg
widget.IdleRPG(url="http://xethron.lolhosting.net/xml.php?player=pants")

Widget requirements: xmltodict.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	url='http://idlerpg.qtile.org?player=elParaguayo'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
data	None	Post Data
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'IdleRPG: {online} TTL: {ttl}'	Display format
headers	{}	Extra Headers
json	False	Not json :)
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse	None	Parse Function
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.
url	None	Url
user_agent	'Qtile'	Set the user agent
xml	True	Is XML :)

Image

class libqtile.widget.Image(length=CALCULATED, **config)

Display a PNG image on the bar

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	filename='/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/qtile/checkouts/v0.21.0/test/widgets/docs_screenshots/../../scripts/qtile-logo-blue.svg'
	filename='/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/qtile/checkouts/v0.21.0/test/widgets/docs_screenshots/../../scripts/qtile-logo-blue.svg', margin=5
	filename='/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/qtile/checkouts/v0.21.0/test/widgets/docs_screenshots/../../scripts/qtile-logo-blue.svg', rotate=45

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
filename	None	Image filename. Can contain '~'
margin	3	Margin inside the box
margin_x	None	X Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
margin_y	None	Y Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
rotate	0.0	rotate the image in degrees counter-clockwise
scale	True	Enable/Disable image scaling

ImapWidget

class libqtile.widget.ImapWidget(**config)

Email IMAP widget

This widget will scan one of your imap email boxes and report the number of unseen messages present. I've configured it to only work with imap with ssl. Your password is obtained from the Gnome Keyring.

Writing your password to the keyring initially is as simple as (changing out <userid> and <password> for your userid and password):

1. create the file ~/.local/share/python_keyring/keyringrc.cfg with the following contents:

   [backend]
   default-keyring=keyring.backends.Gnome.Keyring
   keyring-path=/home/<userid>/.local/share/keyring/
   

2. Execute the following python shell script once:

   #!/usr/bin/env python3
   import keyring
   user = <userid>
   password = <password>
   keyring.set_password('imapwidget', user, password)
   

mbox names must include the path to the mbox (except for the default INBOX). So, for example if your mailroot is ~/Maildir, and you want to look at the mailbox at HomeMail/fred, the mbox setting would be: mbox="~/Maildir/HomeMail/fred". Note the nested sets of quotes! Labels can be whatever you choose, of course.

Widget requirements: keyring.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	user='qtile'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
label	'INBOX'	label for display
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mbox	'"INBOX"'	mailbox to fetch
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
server	None	email server name
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.
user	None	email username

KeyboardKbdd

class libqtile.widget.KeyboardKbdd(**config)

Widget for changing keyboard layouts per window, using kbdd

kbdd should be installed and running, you can get it from: https://github.com/qnikst/kbdd

The widget also requires dbus-next.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	configured_keyboards=['gb', 'us']

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
colours	None	foreground colour for each layouteither 'None' or a list of colours.example: ['ffffff', 'E6F0AF'].
configured_keyboards	['us', 'ir']	your predefined list of keyboard layouts.example: ['us', 'ir', 'es']
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	1	Update interval in seconds.

KeyboardLayout

class libqtile.widget.KeyboardLayout(**config)

Widget for changing and displaying the current keyboard layout

To use this widget effectively you need to specify keyboard layouts you want to use (using "configured_keyboards") and bind function "next_keyboard" to specific keys in order to change layouts.

For example:

Key([mod], "space", lazy.widget["keyboardlayout"].next_keyboard(), desc="Next keyboard layout."),

When running Qtile with the X11 backend, this widget requires setxkbmap to be available.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
configured_keyboards	['us']	A list of predefined keyboard layouts represented as strings. For example: ['us', 'us colemak', 'es', 'fr'].
display_map	{}	Custom display of layout. Key should be in format 'layout variant'. For example: {'us': 'us', 'lt sgs': 'sgs', 'ru phonetic': 'ru'}
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
option	None	string of setxkbmap option. Ex., 'compose:menu,grp_led:scroll'
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	1	Update time in seconds.

KhalCalendar

class libqtile.widget.KhalCalendar(**config)

Khal calendar widget

This widget will display the next appointment on your Khal calendar in the qtile status bar. Appointments within the "reminder" time will be highlighted.

Widget requirements: dateutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'FFFF33'	default foreground color
lookahead	7	days to look ahead in the calendar
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
reminder_color	'FF0000'	color of calendar entries during reminder time
remindertime	10	reminder time in minutes
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.

LaunchBar

class libqtile.widget.LaunchBar(_progs: Optional[list[tuple[str, str, str]]] = None, width=CALCULATED, **config)

A widget that display icons to launch the associated command.

Text will displayed when no icon is found.

Widget requirements: pyxdg.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
default_icon	'/usr/share/icons/oxygen/256x256/mimetypes/application-x-executable.png'	Default icon not found
font	'sans'	Text font
fontshadow	None	Font shadow color, default is None (no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font pixel size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'#ffffff'	Text colour.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	2	Padding between icons
progs	[]	A list of tuples (software_name, command_to_execute, comment), for example: [('thunderbird', 'thunderbird -safe-mode', 'launch thunderbird in safe mode'), ('logout', 'qshell:self.qtile.cmd_shutdown()', 'logout from qtile')]

Maildir

class libqtile.widget.Maildir(**config)

A simple widget showing the number of new mails in maildir mailboxes

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
empty_color	None	Display color when no new mail is available
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
hide_when_empty	False	Whether not to display anything if the subfolder has no new mail
maildir_path	'~/Mail'	path to the Maildir folder
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
nonempty_color	None	Display color when new mail is available
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
separator	' '	the string to put between the subfolder strings.
sub_folders	[{'label': 'Home mail', 'path': 'INBOX'}, {'label': 'Home junk', 'path': 'spam'}]	List of subfolders to scan. Each subfolder is a dict of path and label.
subfolder_fmt	'{label}: {value}'	Display format for one subfolder
total	False	Whether or not to sum subfolders into a grand total. The first label will be used.
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.

Memory

class libqtile.widget.Memory(**config)

Displays memory/swap usage

MemUsed: Returns memory in use MemTotal: Returns total amount of memory MemFree: Returns amount of memory free MemPercent: Returns memory in use as a percentage Buffers: Returns buffer amount Active: Returns active memory Inactive: Returns inactive memory Shmem: Returns shared memory SwapTotal: Returns total amount of swap SwapFree: Returns amount of swap free SwapUsed: Returns amount of swap in use SwapPercent: Returns swap in use as a percentage

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	measure_mem='G'
	format='Swap: {SwapUsed: .0f}{ms}/{SwapTotal: .0f}{ms}'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{MemUsed: .0f}{mm}/{MemTotal: .0f}{mm}'	Formatting for field names.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
measure_mem	'M'	Measurement for Memory (G, M, K, B)
measure_swap	'M'	Measurement for Swap (G, M, K, B)
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	1.0	Update interval for the Memory

MemoryGraph

class libqtile.widget.MemoryGraph(**config)

Displays a memory usage graph.

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	type='box'
	type='line'
	type='line', line_width=1
	start_pos='top'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border_color	'215578'	Widget border color
border_width	2	Widget border width
fill_color	'1667EB.3'	Fill color for linefill graph
frequency	1	Update frequency in seconds
graph_color	'18BAEB'	Graph color
line_width	3	Line width
margin_x	3	Margin X
margin_y	3	Margin Y
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
samples	100	Count of graph samples.
start_pos	'bottom'	Drawer starting position ('bottom'/'top')
type	'linefill'	'box', 'line', 'linefill'

Mirror

class libqtile.widget.Mirror(reflection, **config)

A widget for showing the same widget content in more than one place, for instance, on bars across multiple screens.

You don't need to use it directly; instead, just instantiate your widget once and hand it in to multiple bars. For instance:

cpu = widget.CPUGraph()
clock = widget.Clock()

screens = [
    Screen(top=bar.Bar([widget.GroupBox(), cpu, clock])),
    Screen(top=bar.Bar([widget.GroupBox(), cpu, clock])),
]

Widgets can be passed to more than one bar, so that there don't need to be any duplicates executing the same code all the time, and they'll always be visually identical.

This works for all widgets that use drawers (and nothing else) to display their contents. Currently, this is all widgets except for Systray.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.

Moc

class libqtile.widget.Moc(**config)

A simple MOC widget.

Show the artist and album of now listening song and allow basic mouse control from the bar:

• toggle pause (or play if stopped) on left click;

• skip forward in playlist on scroll up;

• skip backward in playlist on scroll down.

MOC (http://moc.daper.net) should be installed.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
noplay_color	'cecece'	Text colour when not playing.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
play_color	'00ff00'	Text colour when playing.
update_interval	0.5	Update Time in seconds.

Mpd2

class libqtile.widget.Mpd2(**config)

Mpd2 Object.

Parameters

status_format:

format string to display status

For a full list of values, see:

MPDClient.status() and MPDClient.currentsong()

https://musicpd.org/doc/protocol/command_reference.html#command_status https://musicpd.org/doc/protocol/tags.html

Default:

'{play_status} {artist}/{title} \
    [{repeat}{random}{single}{consume}{updating_db}]'

``play_status`` is a string from ``play_states`` dict

Note that the ``time`` property of the song renamed to ``fulltime``
to prevent conflicts with status information during formating.

idle_format:

format string to display status when no song is in queue.

Default:

'{play_status} {idle_message} \
    [{repeat}{random}{single}{consume}{updating_db}]'

idle_message:

text to display instead of song information when MPD is idle. (i.e. no song in queue)

Default:: "MPD IDLE"

prepare_status:

dict of functions to replace values in status with custom characters.

f(status, key, space_element) => str

New functionality allows use of a dictionary of plain strings.

Default:

status_dict = {
    'repeat': 'r',
    'random': 'z',
    'single': '1',
    'consume': 'c',
    'updating_db': 'U'
}

format_fns:

A dict of functions to format the various elements.

'Tag': f(str) => str

Default:: { 'all': lambda s: cgi.escape(s) }

N.B. if 'all' is present, it is processed on every element of song_info

before any other formatting is done.

mouse_buttons:

A dict of mouse button numbers to actions

Widget requirements: python-mpd2_.

.. _python-mpd2: https://pypi.org/project/python-mpd2/

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	status_format='{play_status} {artist}/{title}'
	idle_format='{play_status} {idle_message}', idle_message='MPD not playing'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
color_progress	None	Text color to indicate track progress.
command	<function default_cmd at 0x7f9e138ec430>	command to be executed by mapped mouse button.
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format_fns	{'all': <function escape at 0x7f9e16e3ecb0>}	Dictionary of format methods
host	'localhost'	Host of mpd server
idle_format	'{play_status} {idle_message}[{repeat}{random}{single}{consume}{updating_db}]'	format for status when mpd has no playlist.
idle_message	'MPD IDLE'	text to display when mpd is idle.
idletimeout	5	MPDClient idle command timeout
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_buttons	{1: 'toggle', 3: 'stop', 4: 'previous', 5: 'next'}	b_num -> action.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
no_connection	'No connection'	Text when mpd is disconnected
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
password	None	Password for auth on mpd server
play_states	{'pause': '⏸', 'play': '▶', 'stop': '■'}	Play state mapping
port	6600	Port of mpd server
prepare_status	{'consume': 'c', 'random': 'z', 'repeat': 'r', 'single': '1', 'updating_db': 'U'}	characters to show the status of MPD
space	'-'	Space keeper
status_format	'{play_status} {artist}/{title} [{repeat}{random}{single}{consume}{updating_db}]'	format for displayed song info.
timeout	30	MPDClient timeout
update_interval	1	Interval of update widget

Mpris2

class libqtile.widget.Mpris2(**config)

An MPRIS 2 widget

A widget which displays the current track/artist of your favorite MPRIS player. This widget scrolls the text if neccessary and information that is displayed is configurable.

Widget requirements: dbus-next.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	scroll_chars=45
	display_metadata=['xesam:url']
	stop_pause_text='Player paused'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
display_metadata	['xesam:title', 'xesam:album', 'xesam:artist']	Which metadata identifiers to display. See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mpris-spec/metadata/#index5h3 for available values
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
name	'audacious'	Name of the MPRIS widget.
objname	'org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.audacious'	DBUS MPRIS 2 compatible player identifier- Find it out with dbus-monitor - Also see: http://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/latest/#Bus-Name-Policy
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
scroll_chars	30	How many chars at once to display.
scroll_interval	0.5	Scroll delay interval.
scroll_wait_intervals	8	Wait x scroll_interval beforescrolling/removing text
stop_pause_text	None	Optional text to display when in the stopped/paused state

Net

class libqtile.widget.Net(**config)

Displays interface down and up speed

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	format='{interface}: U {up} D {down} T {total}'
	interface='wlp58s0'
	prefix='M'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{interface}: {down} ↓↑ {up}'	Display format of down/upload/total speed of given interfaces
interface	None	List of interfaces or single NIC as string to monitor, None to display all active NICs combined
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
prefix	None	Use a specific prefix for the unit of the speed.
update_interval	1	The update interval.
use_bits	False	Use bits instead of bytes per second?

NetGraph

class libqtile.widget.NetGraph(**config)

Display a network usage graph.

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	type='box'
	type='line'
	type='line', line_width=1
	start_pos='top'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
bandwidth_type	'down'	down(load)/up(load)
border_color	'215578'	Widget border color
border_width	2	Widget border width
fill_color	'1667EB.3'	Fill color for linefill graph
frequency	1	Update frequency in seconds
graph_color	'18BAEB'	Graph color
interface	'auto'	Interface to display info for ('auto' for detection)
line_width	3	Line width
margin_x	3	Margin X
margin_y	3	Margin Y
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
samples	100	Count of graph samples.
start_pos	'bottom'	Drawer starting position ('bottom'/'top')
type	'linefill'	'box', 'line', 'linefill'

Notify

class libqtile.widget.Notify(width=CALCULATED, **config)

A notify widget

This widget can handle actions provided by notification clients. However, only the default action is supported, so if a client provides multiple actions then only the default (first) action can be invoked. Some programs will provide their own notification windows if the notification server does not support actions, so if you want your notifications to handle more than one action then specify False for the action option to disable all action handling. Unfortunately we cannot specify the capability for exactly one action.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
action	True	Enable handling of default action upon right click
audiofile	None	Audiofile played during notifications
background	None	Widget background color
default_timeout	None	Default timeout (seconds) for notifications
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
foreground_low	'dddddd'	Foreground low priority colour
foreground_urgent	'ff0000'	Foreground urgent priority colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse_text	None	Function to parse and modify notifications. e.g. function in config that removes line returns:def my_func(text) return text.replace('n', '')then set option parse_text=my_func

NvidiaSensors

class libqtile.widget.NvidiaSensors(**config)

Displays temperature, fan speed and performance level Nvidia GPU.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	threshold=60, foreground_alert='ff6000'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
foreground_alert	'ff0000'	Foreground colour alert
format	'{temp}°C'	Display string format. Three options available: {temp} - temperature, {fan_speed} and {perf} - performance level
gpu_bus_id	''	GPU's Bus ID, ex: 01:00.0. If leave empty will display all available GPU's
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
threshold	70	If the current temperature value is above, then change to foreground_alert colour
update_interval	2	Update interval in seconds.

OpenWeather

class libqtile.widget.OpenWeather(**config)

A weather widget, data provided by the OpenWeather API.

Some format options:

• location_city

• location_cityid

• location_country

• location_lat

• location_long

• weather

• weather_details

• units_temperature

• units_wind_speed

• isotime

• humidity

• pressure

• sunrise

• sunset

• temp

• visibility

• wind_speed

• wind_deg

• wind_direction

• main_feels_like

• main_temp_min

• main_temp_max

• clouds_all

• icon

Icon support is available but you will need a suitable font installed. A default icon mapping is provided (OpenWeather.symbols) but changes can be made by setting weather_symbols. Available icon codes can be viewed here: https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions#Icon-list

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	location='London'
	location='London', format='{location_city}: {sunrise} {sunset}'
	location='London', format='{location_city}: {wind_speed} {wind_deg} {wind_direction}'
	location='London', format='{location_city}: {icon}'

key	default	description
app_key	'7834197c2338888258f8cb94ae14ef49'	Open Weather access key. A default is provided, butn for prolonged use obtaining your own is suggested:n https://home.openweathermap.org/users/sign_up
background	None	Widget background color
cityid	None	City ID. Can be looked up on e.g.:n https://openweathermap.org/findn Takes precedence over location and coordinates.n Note that this is not equal to a WOEID.
coordinates	None	Dictionary containing latitude and longituden Example: coordinates={"longitude": "77.22",n "latitude": "28.67"}
data	None	Post Data
dateformat	'%Y-%m-%d '	Format for dates, defaults to ISO.n For details see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.strftime
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{location_city}: {main_temp} °{units_temperature} {humidity}% {weather_details}'	Display format
headers	{}	Extra Headers
json	True	Is Json?
language	'en'	Language of response. List of languages supported cann be seen at: https://openweathermap.org/current undern Multilingual support
location	None	Name of the city. Country name can be appendedn like cambridge,NZ. Takes precedence over zip-code.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
metric	True	True to use metric/C, False to use imperial/F
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse	None	Parse Function
timeformat	'%H:%M'	Format for times, defaults to ISO.n For details see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/time.html#time.strftime
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.
url	None	Url
user_agent	'Qtile'	Set the user agent
weather_symbols	{}	Dictionary of weather symbols. Can be used to override default symbols.
xml	False	Is XML?
zip	None	Zip code (USA) or "zip code,country code" forn other countries. E.g. 12345,NZ. Takes precedence overn coordinates.

Pomodoro

class libqtile.widget.Pomodoro(**config)

Pomodoro technique widget

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	default
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
color_active	'00ff00'	Colour then pomodoro is running
color_break	'ffff00'	Colour then it is break time
color_inactive	'ff0000'	Colour then pomodoro is inactive
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
length_long_break	15	Length of a long break in minutes
length_pomodori	25	Length of one pomodori in minutes
length_short_break	5	Length of a short break in minutes
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
notification_on	True	Turn notifications on
num_pomodori	4	Number of pomodori to do in a cycle
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
prefix_active	''	Prefix then app is active
prefix_break	'B '	Prefix during short break
prefix_inactive	'POMODORO'	Prefix when app is inactive
prefix_long_break	'LB '	Prefix during long break
prefix_paused	'PAUSE'	Prefix during pause
update_interval	1	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever the event loop is idle.

Prompt

class libqtile.widget.Prompt(**config)

A widget that prompts for user input

Input should be started using the .start_input() method on this class.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
bell_style	'audible'	Alert at the begin/end of the command history. Possible values: 'audible' (X11 only), 'visual' and None.
cursor	True	Show a cursor
cursor_color	'bef098'	Color for the cursor and text over it.
cursorblink	0.5	Cursor blink rate. 0 to disable.
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
ignore_dups_history	False	Don't store duplicates in history
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
max_history	100	Commands to keep in history. 0 for no limit.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
prompt	'{prompt}: '	Text displayed at the prompt
record_history	True	Keep a record of executed commands
visual_bell_color	'ff0000'	Color for the visual bell (changes prompt background).
visual_bell_time	0.2	Visual bell duration (in seconds).

PulseVolume

class libqtile.widget.PulseVolume(**config)

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
cardid	None	Card Id
channel	'Master'	Channel
device	'default'	Device Name
emoji	False	Use emoji to display volume states, only if theme_path is not set.The specified font needs to contain the correct unicode characters.
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
get_volume_command	None	Command to get the current volume
limit_max_volume	False	Limit maximum volume to 100%
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
mute_command	None	Mute command
padding	3	Padding left and right. Calculated if None.
step	2	Volume change for up an down commands in percentage.Only used if volume_up_command and volume_down_command are not set.
theme_path	None	Path of the icons
update_interval	0.2	Update time in seconds.
volume_app	None	App to control volume
volume_down_command	None	Volume down command
volume_up_command	None	Volume up command

QuickExit

class libqtile.widget.QuickExit(widget=CALCULATED, **config)

A button of exiting the running qtile easily. When clicked this button, a countdown start. If the button pushed with in the countdown again, the qtile shutdown.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	default
	default_text='[X]', countdown_format='[{}]'
	default_text='[X]', countdown_format='[{}]'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
countdown_format	'[ {} seconds ]'	This text is showed when counting down.
countdown_start	5	Time to accept the second pushing.
default_text	'[ shutdown ]'	A text displayed as a button
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
timer_interval	1	A countdown interval.

Sep

class libqtile.widget.Sep(**config)

A visible widget separator

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	padding=10, linewidth=5, size_percent=50

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
foreground	'888888'	Separator line colour.
linewidth	1	Width of separator line.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	2	Padding on either side of separator.
size_percent	80	Size as a percentage of bar size (0-100).

She

class libqtile.widget.She(**config)

Widget to display the Super Hybrid Engine status

Can display either the mode or CPU speed on eeepc computers.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
device	'/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/cpufv'	sys path to cpufv
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'speed'	Type of info to display "speed" or "name"
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	0.5	Update Time in seconds.

Spacer

class libqtile.widget.Spacer(length=STRETCH, **config)

Just an empty space on the bar

Often used with length equal to bar.STRETCH to push bar widgets to the right or bottom edge of the screen.

Parameters

length

Length of the widget. Can be either bar.STRETCH or a length in pixels.

width

DEPRECATED, same as length.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	length=50

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.

StatusNotifier

class libqtile.widget.StatusNotifier(**config)

A 'system tray' widget using the freedesktop StatusNotifierItem specification.

As per the specification, app icons are first retrieved from the user's current theme. If this is not available then the app may provide its own icon. In order to use this functionality, users are recommended to install the xdg module to support retrieving icons from the selected theme.

Letf-clicking an icon will trigger an activate event.

Note

Context menus are not currently supported by the official widget. However, a modded version of the widget which provides basic menu support is available from elParaguayo's qtile-extras repo.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	icon_size=30

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
icon_size	16	Icon width
icon_theme	None	Name of theme to use for app icons
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	3	Padding between icons

StockTicker

class libqtile.widget.StockTicker(**config)

A stock ticker widget, based on the alphavantage API. Users must acquire an API key from https://www.alphavantage.co/support/#api-key

The widget defaults to the TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY API function (i.e. stock symbols), but arbitrary Alpha Vantage API queries can be made by passing extra arguments to the constructor.

# Display AMZN
widget.StockTicker(apikey=..., symbol="AMZN")

# Display BTC
widget.StockTicker(
    apikey=..., function="DIGITAL_CURRENCY_INTRADAY", symbol="BTC", market="USD"
)

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	symbol='QTIL'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
data	None	Post Data
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
function	'TIME_SERIES_INTRADAY'	The default API function to query
headers	{}	Extra Headers
interval	'1min'	The default latency to query
json	True	Is Json?
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse	None	Parse Function
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds, if none, the widget updates whenever it's done.
url	None	Url
user_agent	'Qtile'	Set the user agent
xml	False	Is XML?

SwapGraph

class libqtile.widget.SwapGraph(**config)

Display a swap info graph.

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	type='box'
	type='line'
	type='line', line_width=1
	start_pos='top'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border_color	'215578'	Widget border color
border_width	2	Widget border width
fill_color	'1667EB.3'	Fill color for linefill graph
frequency	1	Update frequency in seconds
graph_color	'18BAEB'	Graph color
line_width	3	Line width
margin_x	3	Margin X
margin_y	3	Margin Y
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
samples	100	Count of graph samples.
start_pos	'bottom'	Drawer starting position ('bottom'/'top')
type	'linefill'	'box', 'line', 'linefill'

Systray

class libqtile.widget.Systray(**config)

A widget that manages system tray.

Only one Systray widget is allowed. Adding additional Systray widgets will result in a ConfigError.

Note

Icons will not render correctly where the bar/widget is drawn with a semi-transparent background. Instead, icons will be drawn with a transparent background.

If using this widget it is therefore recommended to use a fully opaque background colour or a fully transparent one.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
icon_size	20	Icon width
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	5	Padding between icons

TaskList

class libqtile.widget.TaskList(**config)

Displays the icon and name of each window in the current group

Contrary to WindowTabs this is an interactive widget. The window that currently has focus is highlighted.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
border	'215578'	Border colour
borderwidth	2	Current group border width
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
highlight_method	'border'	Method of highlighting (one of 'border' or 'block') Uses *_border color settings
icon_size	None	Icon size. (Calculated if set to None. Icons are hidden if set to 0.)
margin	3	Margin inside the box
margin_x	None	X Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
margin_y	None	Y Margin. Overrides 'margin' if set
markup_floating	None	Text markup of the floating window state. Supports pangomarkup with markup=True.e.g., "{}" or "<span underline="low">{}</span>"
markup_focused	None	Text markup of the focused window state. Supports pangomarkup with markup=True.e.g., "{}" or "<span underline="low">{}</span>"
markup_maximized	None	Text markup of the maximized window state. Supports pangomarkup with markup=True.e.g., "{}" or "<span underline="low">{}</span>"
markup_minimized	None	Text markup of the minimized window state. Supports pangomarkup with markup=True.e.g., "{}" or "<span underline="low">{}</span>"
markup_normal	None	Text markup of the normal window state. Supports pangomarkup with markup=True.e.g., "{}" or "<span underline="low">{}</span>"
max_title_width	None	Max size in pixels of task title.(if set to None, as much as available.)
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	3	Padding inside the box
padding_x	None	X Padding. Overrides 'padding' if set
padding_y	None	Y Padding. Overrides 'padding' if set
parse_text	None	Function to parse and modify window names. e.g. function in config that removes excess strings from window name: def my_func(text) for string in [" - Chromium", " - Firefox"]: text = text.replace(string, "") return textthen set option parse_text=my_func
rounded	True	To round or not to round borders
spacing	None	Spacing between tasks.(if set to None, will be equal to margin_x)
title_width_method	None	Method to compute the width of task title. (None, 'uniform'.)Defaults to None, the normal behaviour.
txt_floating	'V '	Text representation of the floating window state. e.g., "V " or "🗗 "
txt_maximized	'[] '	Text representation of the maximized window state. e.g., "[] " or "🗖 "
txt_minimized	'_ '	Text representation of the minimized window state. e.g., "_ " or "🗕 "
unfocused_border	None	Border color for unfocused windows. Affects only hightlight_method 'border' and 'block'. Defaults to None, which means no special color.
urgent_alert_method	'border'	Method for alerting you of WM urgent hints (one of 'border' or 'text')
urgent_border	'FF0000'	Urgent border color

TextBox

class libqtile.widget.TextBox(text=' ', width=CALCULATED, **config)

A flexible textbox that can be updated from bound keys, scripts, and qshell.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	foreground='2980b9'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Text font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font pixel size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'#ffffff'	Foreground colour.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding left and right. Calculated if None.

ThermalSensor

class libqtile.widget.ThermalSensor(**config)

Widget to display temperature sensor information

For using the thermal sensor widget you need to have lm-sensors installed. You can get a list of the tag_sensors executing "sensors" in your terminal. Then you can choose which you want, otherwise it will display the first available.

Widget requirements: psutil.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
foreground_alert	'ff0000'	Foreground colour alert
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
metric	True	True to use metric/C, False to use imperial/F
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
show_tag	False	Show tag sensor
tag_sensor	None	Tag of the temperature sensor. For example: "temp1" or "Core 0"
threshold	70	If the current temperature value is above, then change to foreground_alert colour
update_interval	2	Update interval in seconds

ThermalZone

class libqtile.widget.ThermalZone(**config)

Thermal zone widget.

This widget was made to read thermal zone files and transform values to human readable format. You can set zone parameter to any standard thermal zone file from /sys/class/thermal directory.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	high=45
	high=40, crit=45

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
crit	70	Critical temperature level
fgcolor_crit	'ff0000'	Font color on critical values
fgcolor_high	'ffaa00'	Font color on high values
fgcolor_normal	'ffffff'	Font color on normal values
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{temp}°C'	Display format
format_crit	'{temp}°C CRIT!'	Critical display format
hidden	False	Set True to only show if critical value reached
high	50	High themperature level
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	2.0	Update interval
zone	'/sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp'	Thermal zone

Volume

class libqtile.widget.Volume(**config)

Widget that display and change volume

By default, this widget uses amixer to get and set the volume so users will need to make sure this is installed. Alternatively, users may set the relevant parameters for the widget to use a different application.

If theme_path is set it draw widget as icons.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	theme_path='/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/qtile/checkouts/v0.21.0/test/data/ss_temp'
	emoji=True
	fmt='Vol: {}'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
cardid	None	Card Id
channel	'Master'	Channel
device	'default'	Device Name
emoji	False	Use emoji to display volume states, only if theme_path is not set.The specified font needs to contain the correct unicode characters.
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
get_volume_command	None	Command to get the current volume
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
mute_command	None	Mute command
padding	3	Padding left and right. Calculated if None.
step	2	Volume change for up an down commands in percentage.Only used if volume_up_command and volume_down_command are not set.
theme_path	None	Path of the icons
update_interval	0.2	Update time in seconds.
volume_app	None	App to control volume
volume_down_command	None	Volume down command
volume_up_command	None	Volume up command

Wallpaper

class libqtile.widget.Wallpaper(**config)

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
directory	'~/Pictures/wallpapers/'	Wallpaper Directory
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
label	None	Use a fixed label instead of image name.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
option	'fill'	How to fit the wallpaper when wallpaper_command isNone. None, 'fill' or 'stretch'.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
random_selection	False	If set, use random initial wallpaper and randomly cycle through the wallpapers.
wallpaper	None	Wallpaper
wallpaper_command	['feh', '--bg-fill']	Wallpaper command. If None, thewallpaper will be painted without the use of a helper.

WidgetBox

class libqtile.widget.WidgetBox(_widgets: Optional[list[libqtile.widget.base._Widget]] = None, **config)

A widget to declutter your bar.

WidgetBox is a widget that hides widgets by default but shows them when the box is opened.

Widgets that are hidden will still update etc. as if they were on the main bar.

Button clicks are passed to widgets when they are visible so callbacks will work.

Widgets in the box also remain accessible via command interfaces.

Widgets can only be added to the box via the configuration file. The widget is configured by adding widgets to the "widgets" parameter as follows:

widget.WidgetBox(widgets=[
    widget.TextBox(text="This widget is in the box"),
    widget.Memory()
    ]
),

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	widgets=[]
	widgets=[]

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
close_button_location	'left'	Location of close button when box open ('left' or 'right')
font	'sans'	Text font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font pixel size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'#ffffff'	Foreground colour.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
text_closed	'[<]'	Text when box is closed
text_open	'[>]'	Text when box is open
widgets	[]	A list of widgets to include in the box

WindowCount

class libqtile.widget.WindowCount(width=CALCULATED, **config)

A simple widget to display the number of windows in the current group of the screen on which the widget is.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Text font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font pixel size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'#ffffff'	Foreground colour.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding left and right. Calculated if None.
show_zero	False	Show window count when no windows
text_format	'{num}'	Format for message

WindowName

class libqtile.widget.WindowName(width=STRETCH, **config)

Displays the name of the window that currently has focus

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default
	default
	default
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
empty_group_string	' '	string to display when no windows are focused on current group
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
for_current_screen	False	instead of this bars screen use currently active screen
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{state}{name}'	format of the text
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse_text	None	Function to parse and modify window names. e.g. function in config that removes excess strings from window name: def my_func(text) for string in [" - Chromium", " - Firefox"]: text = text.replace(string, "") return textthen set option parse_text=my_func

WindowTabs

class libqtile.widget.WindowTabs(**config)

Displays the name of each window in the current group. Contrary to TaskList this is not an interactive widget. The window that currently has focus is highlighted.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	default

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse_text	None	Function to parse and modify window names. e.g. function in config that removes excess strings from window name: def my_func(text) for string in [" - Chromium", " - Firefox"]: text = text.replace(string, "") return textthen set option parse_text=my_func
selected	('<b>', '</b>')	Selected task indicator
separator	' | '	Task separator text.

Wlan

class libqtile.widget.Wlan(**config)

Displays Wifi SSID and quality.

Widget requirements: iwlib.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

example	config
	default
	format='{essid} {percent:2.0%}'

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
disconnected_message	'Disconnected'	String to show when the wlan is diconnected.
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'{essid} {quality}/70'	Display format. For percents you can use "{essid} {percent:2.0%}"
interface	'wlan0'	The interface to monitor
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
update_interval	1	The update interval.

Wttr

class libqtile.widget.Wttr(**config)

Display weather widget provided by wttr.in.

To specify your own custom output format, use the special %-notation (example: 'My_city: %t(%f), wind: %w'):

• %c Weather condition,

• %C Weather condition textual name,

• %h Humidity,

• %t Temperature (Actual),

• %f Temperature (Feels Like),

• %w Wind,

• %l Location,

• %m Moonphase 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘,

• %M Moonday,

• %p precipitation (mm),

• %P pressure (hPa),

• %D Dawn !,

• %S Sunrise !,

• %z Zenith !,

• %s Sunset !,

• %d Dusk !. (!times are shown in the local timezone)

Add the character ~ at the beginning to get weather for some special location: ~Vostok Station or ~Eiffel Tower.

Also can use IP-addresses (direct) or domain names (prefixed with @) to specify a location: @github.com, 123.456.678.123

Specify multiple locations as dictionary

location={
    'Minsk': 'Minsk',
    '64.127146,-21.873472': 'Reykjavik',
}

Cities will change randomly every update.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

example	config
	location={'London': 'Home'}

key	default	description
background	None	Widget background color
data	None	Post Data
fmt	'{}'	How to format the text
font	'sans'	Default font
fontshadow	None	font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
fontsize	None	Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground	'ffffff'	Foreground colour
format	'3'	Display text format. Choose presets in range 1-4 (Ex. "1") or build your own custom output format, use the special %-notation. See https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in#one-line-output
headers	{}	Extra Headers
json	False	Is Json?
lang	'en'	Display text language. List of supported languages https://wttr.in/:translation
location	None	Dictionary. Key is a city or place name, or GPS coordinates. Value is a display name.
markup	True	Whether or not to use pango markup
max_chars	0	Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
mouse_callbacks	{}	Dict of mouse button press callback functions. Acceps functions and lazy calls.
padding	None	Padding. Calculated if None.
parse	None	Parse Function
units	'm'	'm' - metric, 'M' - show wind speed in m/s, 'u' - United States units
update_interval	600	Update interval in seconds. Recommendation: if you want to display multiple locations alternately, maybe set a smaller interval, ex. 30.
url	None	Url
user_agent	'Qtile'	Set the user agent
xml	False	Is XML?