Polybar: bspwm: Hide emtpy workspaces

Created on 28 Feb 2018 · 3Comments · Source: polybar/polybar

Hello,
I haven't found a way to hide empty workspaces in bspwm. The i3 module does that.
Is there a way to configure that in the bspwm module?
The empty workspaces are "grayed out" in the default bspwm module config, I would like to hide those altogether.

Thanks,

Pablo

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pinpox

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Nevermind, found the solution:
Setting

label-empty =
to an empty string does the trick.

pinpox on 1 Mar 2018

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Nevermind, found the solution:
Setting

label-empty =
to an empty string does the trick.

pinpox on 1 Mar 2018

👍3

Hey can you please put an example of how you did it? I want to do it but not really sure what to do with ''label-empty".
Thanks!

ChuckD3ath on 4 Sep 2019

You just have to add label-empty = under the config of the bspwm module.
See https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Module:-bspwm for more information.

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