i3pyblocks.blocks.i3ipc

Blocks based on i3ipc.

This module contains WindowTitleBlock, that uses i3ipc to show the current window title in i3pyblocks.

Since it uses a publish/subscribe mechanism, it should be highly efficient, only updating when it is actually needed.

Module Contents

Classes

WindowTitleBlock

Block that shows the current window title.

class i3pyblocks.blocks.i3ipc.WindowTitleBlock(format: str = '{window_title:.81s}', **kwargs)

Bases: i3pyblocks.blocks.Block

Block that shows the current window title.

Parameters

• format – Format string to shown. Supports {window_title} placeholder.

• **kwargs – Extra arguments to be passed to Block class.

async clear_title(self, *_)

async update_title(self, connection, *_)

async start(self) → None

Starts a Block.

This is an abstract method, so it should be overriden.

This method is where you generally wants to put your main loop to update the state of the Block. This loop can either be triggered by events or can be an infinity loop. It can even be a single call to update(), but in this case your Block will only be updated once.