From 214382a0307e2b2318d09d5be1c715eaf77d635b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Axel Wagner Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 12:43:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the color-options in the manpage --- i3bar/.gitignore | 1 + i3bar/doc/i3bar.man | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/i3bar/.gitignore b/i3bar/.gitignore index 01e7ad61a..6aad070bb 100644 --- a/i3bar/.gitignore +++ b/i3bar/.gitignore @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ i3bar *.o core +doc/i3bar.1 diff --git a/i3bar/doc/i3bar.man b/i3bar/doc/i3bar.man index dc094ae6c..c41371b87 100644 --- a/i3bar/doc/i3bar.man +++ b/i3bar/doc/i3bar.man @@ -42,6 +42,18 @@ i3bar does not support any color or other markups, so stdin should be plain utf8 Also, you should disable the internal workspace bar of *i3*(1), when using *i3bar* by specifying 'workspace_bar no' in your *i3*-configfile. +== COLORS + +*i3bar* does not yet support formatting in the displayed statusline. However it does support setting colors for the bar, the workspace-buttons and the statusline. + +For now this happens with the following command-line-options: + +*--color-bar-fg, --color-bar-bg, --color-active-ws-fg, --color-active-ws-bg, --color-inactive-ws-fg, --color-inactive-ws-bg, color-urgent-ws-bg, color-urgent-ws-fg* + +For each specified option you need to give a HEX-colorcode. + +Be advised that this command-line-options are only temporary and are very likely to be removed, when we finally have a config-file. + == EXAMPLES To get a docked bar with some statusinformation, you use