ShowDesktop Polybar Module

A module that allows you to use Show Desktop icon (kind of) on i3 (polybar)

Dependencies

• Polybar
• AwesomeFonts
• Happiness

How does it work

This module works when you click on the Polybar icons, means :

Left Click :

that moves the selected windows to scratchpad move scratchpad using i3-msg

Right Click :

that shows the hidden windows (sent to scratchpad) [class=.*] scratchpad show using also i3-msg.

I added [class=.*] so it shows all the windows sent to scratchpad and not one by one

Demo on Youtube on how it works

Screenshots :

Settings :

[module/showdesktop]
type = custom/script
exec = echo ""
click-left = exec i3-msg move scratchpad
click-right = exec i3-msg [class=.*] scratchpad show

How I got the idea : [Reddit r/i3wm 💓]

• Show Dekstop Hotkey

• Show All Scratchpad Windows