Basic Organization

Each widget has:

Class

Class: Type of widget.

Example: textbox, scrollbar, separator

Class are prefixed with a @

List of classes in rofi:

@textbox
@scrollbar
@window
@separator
@listview
@box

Name

Name: Internal name of the widget.

Sub-widgets are {Parent}.{Child}.

Example: listview, listview.element, listview.scrollbar

Names are prefixed with a #

List of names in rofi:

#window
#mainbox
- #mainbox.box: The main vertical @box
#inputbar
- #inputbar.box: The horizontal @box packing the widgets.
- #inputbar.separator: The separator under/above the inputbar.
- #inputbar.case-indicator: The case/sort indicator @textbox
- #inputbar.prompt: The prompt @textbox
- #inputbar.entry: The main entry @textbox
#listview
- #listview.scrollbar: The listview scrollbar
- #listview.element: The entries in the listview
#sidebar
- #sidebar.box: The main horizontal @box packing the buttons.
- #sidebar.button: The buttons @textbox for each mode.
- #sidebar.separator: The separator under/above the sidebar.
#message
- #message.textbox: The message textbox.
- #message.separator: The separator under/above the sidebar.

State

State: State of widget

Optional flag(s) indicating state.

These are appended after the name or class of the widget.

@textbox selected.normal { }

#listview.element selected.urgent { }

Currently only the @entrybox has states:

{visible modifier}.{state}

Where visible modifier can be:

normal: No modification.
selected: The entry is selected/highlighted by user.
alternate: The entry is at an alternating row. (uneven row)

Where state is:

normal: No modification.
urgent: This entry is marked urgent.
activE: This entry is marked active.

These can be mixed.

Example:

@textbox selected.active { 
    background: #003642;
    foreground: #008ed4;
}

Sets all selected textboxes marked active to the given foreground and background color.

File structure

The file is structured as follows

/* Global properties, that apply as default to all widgets. */
{list of properties}

@{class} {optional state} {
    {list of properties}
}
@{name}.{name} {optional state} {
    {list of properties}
}

The global properties has to be at the top of the file, the rest can freeĺy be mixed.

Each property is constructed like:

{key} : {value} ;

Key is a simple ascii string. Separated from value by a colon ':'; Value supports the following formats:

string: "{string}"
integer: [0-9]+
double: [0-9]+\.[0-9]
boolean: true|false
color:
- #[0-9a-fA-F]{6}: hexidecimal rgb color.
- #[0-9a-fA-F]{8}: hexidecimal argb color.
- argb:[0-0a-fA-F]{8}: Old rofi argb color style.
- rgba\([0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3}, [0-9]{1,3}, {double}\): css style rgba color.
- rgb\([0-9]{1,3},[0-9]{1,3}, [0-9]{1,3}\): css style rgb color. Each property is closed by a semi-colon ';';

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Basic Organization

Class

Name

State

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