xborder

Active window border replacement for window managers.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/deter0/xborder
cd xborder
chmod +x xborders
./xborders --help

Dependencies

Make sure you have these!

• pycairo (Tested with version 1.21.0, pip install pycairo)
• libwnck (Tested with version 40.1-1 sudo pacman -S libwnck3)
• gtk
• a compositor (picom is what I am using or you can use another compositor) although even compton with work, just something that supports transparent windows.

Note for compositor

If you don't want your entire screen blurred please add class_g = 'xborder' to your blur-exclude!

blur-background-exclude = [
  # prevents picom from blurring the background
  "class_g   = 'xborder'",
  ...
];

xborder:

i3:

Config

Configuration options can be found by passing in the argument --help on the command line, or by specifying a config file with the argument -c. The config file is just a simple json file with the keys being the same as the command-line arguments (except without the "--" at the beginning).