lemonbar/README.md
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b(ar) a(in't) r(ecursive)
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2012 (C) The Lemon Man
A lightweight bar based on XCB (yay). Provides foreground/background color
switching along with text alignment (screw you dzen!), nothing less and
nothing more.
Options
-------
bar accepts a couple of command line switches.
```
-h Shows the help and bails out.
-p Make the bar permanent.
```
Configuration
-------------
Change the config.h file and you're good to go!
The text background and foreground are respectively the first and the second
entries in the palette (COLOR0 and COLOR1).
Colors
------
Attached there's palette.pl, an handy tool that extracts a palette from your
X colors and returns it ready to be pasted in the configuration file.
```
palette.pl <.Xresources / .Xdefaults path>
```
If you keep your colors in a separate file just feed that file and you're good
to go.
Text formatting
---------------
All the format commands are preceded by a backslash (\\).
To draw a backslash just backslash escape it (\\\\).
```
f<0-9> Selects the text foreground color from the palette.
b<0-9> Selects the text background color from the palette.
u<0-9> Selects the underline color from the palette.
To reset the bg/fg color just pass 'r' as color index.
l Aligns the text to the left.
c Aligns the text to the center.
r Aligns the text to the right.
```