Built-in Widgets

class libqtile.widget.AGroupBox(**config)[source]

A widget that graphically displays the current group.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
border '000000' group box border color
class libqtile.widget.Backlight(**config)[source]

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
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
max_brightness_file 'max_brightness' Name of file with the maximum brightness in /sys/class/backlight/backlight_name
update_interval 0.2 The delay in seconds between updates
class libqtile.widget.Battery(**config)[source]

A simple but flexible text-based battery widget.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
charge_char '^' Character to indicate the battery is charging
discharge_char 'V' Character to indicate the battery is discharging
error_message 'Error' Error message if something is wrong
format '{char} {percent:2.0%} {hour:d}:{min:02d}' Display format
hide_threshold None Hide the text when there is enough energy
low_percentage 0.1 Indicates when to use the low_foreground color 0 < x < 1
low_foreground 'FF0000' Font color on low battery
class libqtile.widget.BatteryIcon(**config)[source]

Battery life indicator widget.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
theme_path '/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/qtile/checkouts/v0.10.3/libqtile/resources/battery-icons' Path of the icons
custom_icons {} dict containing key->filename icon map
class libqtile.widget.BitcoinTicker(**config)[source]

A bitcoin ticker widget, data provided by the btc-e.com API. Defaults to displaying currency in whatever the current locale is.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
currency '' The currency the value of bitcoin is displayed in
format 'BTC Buy: {buy}, Sell: {sell}' Display format, allows buy, sell, high, low, avg, vol, vol_cur, last, variables.
class libqtile.widget.CPUGraph(**config)[source]

Display CPU usage graph.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
core 'all' Which core to show (all/0/1/2/...)
class libqtile.widget.Canto(**config)[source]

Display RSS feeds updates using the canto console reader.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
fetch False Whether to fetch new items on update
feeds [] List of feeds to display, empty for all
one_format '{name}: {number}' One feed display format
all_format '{number}' All feeds display format
class libqtile.widget.CheckUpdates(**config)[source]

Shows number of pending updates in different unix systems.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
distro 'Arch' Name of your distribution
update_interval 60 Update interval in seconds.
execute None Command to execute on click
display_format 'Updates: {updates}' Display format if updates available
colour_no_updates 'ffffff' Colour when there’s no updates.
colour_have_updates 'ffffff' Colour when there are updates.
class libqtile.widget.Clipboard(width=CALCULATED, **config)[source]

Display current clipboard contents.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
selection 'CLIPBOARD' the selection to display(CLIPBOARD or PRIMARY)
max_width 10 maximum number of characters to display (None for all, useful when width is bar.STRETCH)
timeout 10 Default timeout (seconds) for display text, None to keep forever
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
class libqtile.widget.Clock(**config)[source]

A simple but flexible text-based clock.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
format '%H:%M' A Python datetime format string
update_interval 1.0 Update interval for the clock
timezone None The timezone to use for this clock, e.g. “US/Central” (or anything in /usr/share/zoneinfo). None means the default timezone.
class libqtile.widget.Cmus(**config)[source]

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 only

key default description
play_color '00ff00' Text colour when playing.
noplay_color 'cecece' Text colour when not playing.
max_chars 0 Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
update_interval 0.5 Update Time in seconds.
class libqtile.widget.Countdown(**config)[source]

A simple countdown timer text widget.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
format '{D}d {H}h {M}m {S}s' Format of the displayed text. Available variables:{D} == days, {H} == hours, {M} == minutes, {S} seconds.
update_interval 1.0 Update interval in seconds for the clock
date datetime.datetime(2015, 12, 25, 19, 53, 1, 445755) The datetime for the endo of the countdown
class libqtile.widget.CurrentLayout(width=CALCULATED, **config)[source]

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 only

key default description
font 'Arial' Default font
fontsize None Font size. Calculated if None.
padding None Padding. Calculated if None.
foreground 'ffffff' Foreground colour
fontshadow None font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
markup False Whether or not to use pango markup
class libqtile.widget.CurrentScreen(width=CALCULATED, **config)[source]

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
active_text 'A' Text displayed when the screen is active
inactive_text 'I' Text displayed when the screen is inactive
active_color '00ff00' Color when screen is active
inactive_color 'ff0000' Color when screen is inactive
class libqtile.widget.DF(**config)[source]

Disk Free Widget

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
partition '/' the partition to check space
warn_color 'ff0000' Warning color
warn_space 2 Warning space in scale defined by the measure option.
visible_on_warn True Only display if warning
measure 'G' Measurement (G, M, B)
format '{p} ({uf}{m})' String format (p: partition, s: size, f: free space, uf: user free space, m: measure)
update_interval 60 The update inteval.
class libqtile.widget.DebugInfo(**config)[source]

Displays debugging infos about selected window

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
font 'Arial' Default font
fontsize None Font size. Calculated if None.
padding None Padding. Calculated if None.
foreground 'ffffff' Foreground colour
fontshadow None font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
markup False Whether or not to use pango markup
class libqtile.widget.GenPollText(**config)[source]

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
func None Poll Function
class libqtile.widget.GenPollUrl(**config)[source]

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
url None Url
data None Post Data
parse None Parse Function
json True Is Json?
user_agent 'Qtile' Set the user agent
headers {} Extra Headers
class libqtile.widget.GmailChecker(**config)[source]

A simple gmail checker.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
update_interval 30 Update time in seconds.
username None username
password None password
email_path 'INBOX' email_path
fmt 'inbox[%s],unseen[%s]' fmt
status_only_unseen False Only show unseen messages
class libqtile.widget.GroupBox(**config)[source]

A widget that graphically displays the current group.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
active 'FFFFFF' Active group font colour
inactive '404040' Inactive group font colour
highlight_method 'border' Method of highlighting (‘border’, ‘block’, ‘text’, or ‘line’)Uses *_border color settings
rounded True To round or not to round box borders
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.
other_screen_border '404040' Border or line colour for group on other screen.
highlight_color ['000000', '282828'] Active group highlight color when using ‘line’ highlight method.
urgent_alert_method 'border' Method for alerting you of WM urgent hints (one of ‘border’, ‘text’, ‘block’, or ‘line’)
urgent_text 'FF0000' Urgent group font color
urgent_border 'FF0000' Urgent border or line color
disable_drag False Disable dragging and dropping of group names on widget
invert_mouse_wheel False Whether to invert mouse wheel group movement
visible_groups None Groups that will be visible (if set to None or [], all groups will be visible)
class libqtile.widget.HDDBusyGraph(**config)[source]

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

key default description
device 'sda' Block device to display info for
class libqtile.widget.HDDGraph(**config)[source]

Display HDD free or used space graph.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
path '/' Partition mount point.
space_type 'used' free/used
class libqtile.widget.Image(length=CALCULATED, width=None, **config)[source]

Display a PNG image on the bar.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key default description
scale True Enable/Disable image scaling
filename None PNG Image filename. Can contain ‘~’
class libqtile.widget.KeyboardLayout(**config)[source]

Widget for changing and displaying the current keyboard layout. It requires setxkbmap to be available in the system.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
update_interval 1 Update time in seconds.
configured_keyboards ['us'] A list of predefined keyboard layouts represented as strings. For example: [‘us’, ‘us colemak’, ‘es’, ‘fr’].
class libqtile.widget.Maildir(**config)[source]

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
maildirPath '~/Mail' path to the Maildir folder
subFolders [] The subfolders to scan (e.g. [{“path”: “INBOX”, “label”: “Home mail”}, {“path”: “spam”, “label”: “Home junk”}]
separator ' ' the string to put between the subfolder strings.
class libqtile.widget.Memory(**config)[source]

Displays memory usage.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
fmt '{MemUsed}M/{MemTotal}M' see /proc/meminfo for field names
class libqtile.widget.MemoryGraph(**config)[source]

Displays a memory usage graph.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
graph_color '18BAEB' Graph color
fill_color '1667EB.3' Fill color for linefill graph
border_color '215578' Widget border color
border_width 2 Widget border width
margin_x 3 Margin X
margin_y 3 Margin Y
samples 100 Count of graph samples.
frequency 1 Update frequency in seconds
type 'linefill' ‘box’, ‘line’, ‘linefill’
line_width 3 Line width
start_pos 'bottom' Drawer starting position (‘bottom’/’top’)
class libqtile.widget.Moc(**config)[source]

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 only

key default description
play_color '00ff00' Text colour when playing.
noplay_color 'cecece' Text colour when not playing.
max_chars 0 Maximum number of characters to display in widget.
update_interval 0.5 Update Time in seconds.
class libqtile.widget.Net(**config)[source]

Displays interface down and up speed.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
interface 'wlan0' The interface to monitor
update_interval 1 The update interval.
class libqtile.widget.NetGraph(**config)[source]

Display a network usage graph.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
interface 'auto' Interface to display info for (‘auto’ for detection)
bandwidth_type 'down' down(load)/up(load)
class libqtile.widget.Notify(width=CALCULATED, **config)[source]

A notify widget.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
foreground_urgent 'ff0000' Foreground urgent priority colour
foreground_low 'dddddd' Foreground low priority colour
default_timeout None Default timeout (seconds) for notifications
audiofile None Audiofile played during notifications
class libqtile.widget.Pacman(**config)[source]

Shows number of available updates. Needs the pacman package manager installed. So will only work in Arch Linux installation.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
unavailable 'ffffff' Unavailable Color - no updates.
execute None Command to execute on click
update_interval 60 The update interval.
class libqtile.widget.Prompt(name='prompt', **config)[source]

A widget that prompts for user input. Input should be started using the .startInput method on this class.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
cursor True Show a cursor
cursorblink 0.5 Cursor blink rate. 0 to disable.
cursor_color 'bef098' Color for the cursor and text over it.
prompt '{prompt}: ' Text displayed at the prompt
record_history True Keep a record of executed commands
max_history 100 Commands to keep in history. 0 for no limit.
bell_style 'audible' Alert at the begin/end of the command history. Posible values: ‘audible’, ‘visual’ and None.
visual_bell_color 'ff0000' Color for the visual bell (changes prompt background).
visual_bell_time 0.2 Visual bell duration (in seconds).
class libqtile.widget.Sep(height_percent=None, **config)[source]

A visible widget separator.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key default description
padding 2 Padding on either side of separator.
linewidth 1 Width of separator line.
foreground '888888' Separator line colour.
size_percent 80 Size as a percentage of bar size (0-100).
class libqtile.widget.She(**config)[source]

Widget to display the Super Hybrid Engine status. Can display either the mode or CPU speed on eeepc computers.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
device '/sys/devices/platform/eeepc/cpufv' sys path to cpufv
format 'speed' Type of info to display “speed” or “name”
update_interval 0.5 Update Time in seconds.
class libqtile.widget.Spacer(length=STRETCH, width=None)[source]

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.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal and vertical

key default description
background None Widget background color
__init__(length=STRETCH, width=None)[source]
  • length: Length of the widget. Can be either bar.STRETCH or a length in pixels.
  • width: DEPRECATED, same as length.
class libqtile.widget.SwapGraph(**config)[source]

Display a swap info graph.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
graph_color '18BAEB' Graph color
fill_color '1667EB.3' Fill color for linefill graph
border_color '215578' Widget border color
border_width 2 Widget border width
margin_x 3 Margin X
margin_y 3 Margin Y
samples 100 Count of graph samples.
frequency 1 Update frequency in seconds
type 'linefill' ‘box’, ‘line’, ‘linefill’
line_width 3 Line width
start_pos 'bottom' Drawer starting position (‘bottom’/’top’)
class libqtile.widget.Systray(**config)[source]

A widget that manages system tray.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
icon_size 20 Icon width
padding 5 Padding between icons
class libqtile.widget.TaskList(**config)[source]

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
font 'Arial' Default font
fontsize None Font size. Calculated if None.
foreground 'ffffff' Foreground colour
fontshadow None font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
borderwidth 2 Current group border width
border '215578' Border colour
rounded True To round or not to round borders
highlight_method 'border' Method of highlighting (one of ‘border’ or ‘block’) Uses *_border color settings
urgent_border 'FF0000' Urgent border color
urgent_alert_method 'border' Method for alerting you of WM urgent hints (one of ‘border’ or ‘text’)
max_title_width 200 size in pixels of task title
class libqtile.widget.TextBox(text=' ', width=CALCULATED, **config)[source]

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

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
font 'Arial' Text font
fontsize None Font pixel size. Calculated if None.
fontshadow None font shadow color, default is None(no shadow)
padding None Padding left and right. Calculated if None.
foreground '#ffffff' Foreground colour.
class libqtile.widget.ThermalSensor(**config)[source]

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.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
metric True True to use metric/C, False to use imperial/F
show_tag False Show tag sensor
update_interval 2 Update interval in seconds
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
foreground_alert 'ff0000' Foreground colour alert
class libqtile.widget.Volume(**config)[source]

Widget that display and change volume if theme_path is set it draw widget as icons.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
cardid None Card Id
device 'default' Device Name
channel 'Master' Channel
padding 3 Padding left and right. Calculated if None.
theme_path None Path of the icons
update_interval 0.2 Update time in seconds.
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.
mute_command None Mute command
volume_up_command None Volume up command
volume_down_command None Volume down command
get_volume_command None Command to get the current volume
class libqtile.widget.Wallpaper(**config)[source]

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
directory '/home/docs/Pictures/wallpapers/' Wallpaper Directory
wallpaper None Wallpaper
wallpaper_command None Wallpaper command
class libqtile.widget.WindowName(width=STRETCH, **config)[source]

Displays the name of the window that currently has focus.

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
show_state True show window status before window name
class libqtile.widget.WindowTabs(**config)[source]

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 only

key default description
separator ' | ' Task separator text.
selected ('<', '>') Selected task indicator
class libqtile.widget.YahooWeather(**config)[source]

A weather widget, data provided by the Yahoo! Weather API.

Format options:

  • astronomy_sunrise
  • astronomy_sunset
  • atmosphere_humidity
  • atmosphere_visibility
  • atmosphere_pressure
  • atmosphere_rising
  • condition_text
  • condition_code
  • condition_temp
  • condition_date
  • location_city
  • location_region
  • location_country
  • units_temperature
  • units_distance
  • units_pressure
  • units_speed
  • wind_chill

Supported bar orientations: horizontal only

key default description
location None Location to fetch weather for. Ignored if woeid is set.
woeid None Where On Earth ID. Auto-calculated if location is set.
format '{location_city}: {condition_temp} °{units_temperature}' Display format
metric True True to use metric/C, False to use imperial/F
up '^' symbol for rising atmospheric pressure
down 'v' symbol for falling atmospheric pressure
steady 's' symbol for steady atmospheric pressure