Padding/margin

[LoganDark]

Maybe I want:

• The icon to be centered
• Some space around the text and icon
• Some space between the text and icon

This shouldn't be too hard, right?

[sagb]

Where do you draw the text if you center the icon?

[LoganDark]

Where do you draw the text if you center the icon?

You center the icon horizontally.

[dxps]

@sagb Related to any possible padding, I just wanted to ask you how did you made the icons get centered in the 3rd screenshot?

This tool is great. Love using it in awesomewm btw.

[LoganDark]

@sagb Related to any possible padding, I just wanted to ask you how did you made the icons get centered in the 3rd screenshot?

This tool is great. Love using it in awesomewm btw.

By making the icons wider via CLI flag. The image will be fit to the icon size without stretching, so you get that centered effect.

[dxps]

@LoganDark Thanks! I'll try that.

Meanwhile, I just discovered an ugly behavior: running in the existing session (using the same cmd flags as listed below) it all looks great, but having it started as part of the session using .xsession using:

❯ cat .xsession

alttab -bg "#002B36" -font xft:FiraSansCondensed -theme "Material-Black-Pistachio-Suru" -t 400x140 -p none &

❯ 

it looks like this:

And the same behavior happens even when placing it into ~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh file.

Update & solution

Your advice is great. Thanks again!
I made it working fine by having it executed a little bit delayed by:

1. Created a script:

   #!/bin/sh
   
   sleep 3
   alttab -bg "#002B36" -font xft:FiraSansCondensed -theme "Material-Black-Pistachio-Suru" -i 400x40 -t 400x140 -p none
   

2. Run it as part of the autorun.sh:

   ❯ tail -n3 ~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh 
   run /home/dxps/apps/scripts/run_alttab.sh
   

[sagb]

@sagb Related to any possible padding, I just wanted to ask you how did you made the icons get centered in the 3rd screenshot?
This tool is great. Love using it in awesomewm btw.

By making the icons wider via CLI flag. The image will be fit to the icon size without stretching, so you get that centered effect.

Yes. There is an exact command line at the botom of https://github.com/sagb/alttab/blob/master/doc/screenshots/screenshots.md

[sagb]

I made it working fine by having it executed a little bit delayed by:

You can also try alttab -w 1 without a delay.

[dxps]

@sagb Thanks! I'll try that.

Now, the last issue I'm facing in one of the systems (both running manjaro-awesome edition with XFCE as DE) I'm using it. Although, there are multiple apps (and many of the non-minimized) open, alttab shows just two of them:

Any idea, please?

Thanks again!

[sagb]

Multiple desktops? Try -d 1

[dxps]

Thanks again for the feedback. Let me get back to you with the outcome.
In AwesomeWM there are actually multiple screens (I have 3 defined, although I'm just using the 1st one).

So, now I have:

• in ~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh:

  run /home/dxps/apps/scripts/run_alttab.sh

• in /home/dxps/apps/scripts/run_alttab.sh:

  #!/bin/sh
  
  ## sleep 2
  alttab -w 1 -d 1 -bg "#002B36" -font xft:FiraSansCondensed -theme "Material-Black-Pistachio-Suru" -i 400x40 -t 400x140 -p none

After login, it's all good. Things might break later, if it is the case.