I tried to make mere windows more useful by making them to output more useful content in place of window name. One existing example is gentoo emerge, which prints status in number of emerged packages with system load.
In attachements - more such apps with same indication, which I could call taskbar indicator (could be window indicator). There are two implementations for indicator itself, which I made to work with existing window. - taskbar-applet-term works in terminal emulator, writing text to status line (tsl, fsl caps). SL display seems only supported in graphical terms like xterm, st, alacritty, etc; tmux SL is just passed to outer term without being used for its own tabs. This is used by all attached applets besides osmo (osmo uses x11 variant). Most of them use existing tui apps, mostly with ncurses (only weather runs own loop using wttr.in). - taskbar-applet-x11 Starts gui app, finds its window by pid (it _NET_WM_PID is set) and sets text for it via xprop. Good if app itself doesn't rewrite title at random (though I know, this could be detected in the even-driven style). I guess, this way allowes to implement some ayatana features. What I could note - it's much more elementary than ayatana: - only one function, to show/hide window. - with special coding this window could implement menu with any desired features, like hide on focus (as all popup menus) or some internal action. Both for term and x11 variants (don't know about dmenu, but rofi has -normal-window, which should allow it to have proper behavior). - unfortunally, no custom functions for taskbar entry, which means that e.g. mouse scroll over "applet" is imposible - all should be done at least via already described popup menu implementation. - Would be great if panel supported per tab individual width, to occupy minimum space like all existing indicators (I have feeling, I tried such long time ago, but now I'm unable to remember, what). Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/OOsYa64.png
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