qtile 0.19.0

Release 0.19.0

on Python PyPI

This release comes with a number of bug fixes, as well as a bunch of new features:

• Add ability to draw borders to the Bar. Can customise size and colour per edge.
• Add StatusNotifier widget implementing the StatusNotifierItem specification. NB Widget does not provide context menus.
• Add total bandwidth format value to the Net widget.
• Scratchpad groups could be defined as single so that only one of the scratchpad in the group is visible at a given time.
• All scratchpads in a Scratchpad group can be hidden with hide_all() function.
• For saving states of scratchpads during restart, we use wids instead of pids.
• Scratchpads can now be defined with an optional matcher to match with window properties.
• Qtile.cmd_reload_config is added for reloading the config without completely restarting.
• Window.cmd_togroup's argument groupName should be changed to group_name. For the time being a log warning is in place and a migration is added. In the future groupName will fail.
• Add min/max_ratio to Tile layout and fix bug where windows can extend offscreen.
• Add ability for widget mouse_callbacks to take lazy calls (similar to keybindings)
• Add aliases to lazy.spawncmd() which takes a dictionary mapping convenient aliases to full command lines.
• Add a new 'prefix' option to the net widget to display speeds with a static unit (e.g. MB).
• lazy.group.toscreen() now does not toggle groups by default. To get this behaviour back, use lazy.group.toscreen(toggle=True)
• Tile layout has new margin_on_single and border_on_single option to specify whether to draw margin and border when there is only one window.
• Thermal zone widget.
• Allow TextBox-based widgets to display in vertical bars.
• Added a focused attribute to lazy.function.when which can be used to Match on focused windows.
• Allow to update Image widget with update() function by giving a new path.

Thank you to all contributors for this release:

• 1kyu
• Ahmed Al Balochi
• Arnas Udovič
• aurok
• bernard
• Daniel Bistriceanu
• elParaguayo
• ep12
• frankebel
• GeoCHiP
• Graeme Holliday
• İ. Göktuğ Kayaalp
• Ilyas B Arinov
• jwijenbergh
• kapilpokhrel
• Kapil Pokhrel
• krive001
• LamprosPitsillos
• Luís Ferreira
• ManuelHaake
• Marcel Rupp
• matteo
• mcol
• Phil
• ramnes
• schragge
• Schroedingersdoraemon
• Sean Vig
• Senthil Babu Jegannathan
• Stefan Richter
• Tokariew
• Tycho Andersen
• yobleck