lain/borderbox.md

<- widgets

Creates a thin wibox at a position relative to another wibox.

This allows to create "borders" for your wiboxes.

lain.widget.borderbox(relbox, s, args)

relbox and s (an integer being screen number) are required arguments, args is an optional table which can contain:

Variable	Meaning	Type	Default
position	Position of the additional box	string	"above"
color	Color of the additional box	string	#FFFFFF
size	Size in pixels of the additional box	int	1

Possible values for .position: above, below, left and right.

Example usage

Think of this as a wibox:

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If args.position = "above", then you'll get an additional wibox below the existing one:

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It'll match position and size of the existing wibox.

If your main wiboxes are stored in a table called mywibox (one wibox for each screen) and are located at the bottom of your screen, then this adds a borderbox on top of them:

-- Layout section
for s = 1, screen.count() do
    ...

    -- Most likely, you'll want to do this as well:
    awful.screen.padding(screen[s], "bottom")

    -- Create the box and place it above the existing box.
    lain.widgets.borderbox(mywibox[s], s, { position = "above" } )

    ...
end