rofi/doc/themer.md

Basic Organization

Each widget has:

Name

Name: Internal name of the widget.

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

Example: window, window.mainbox.listview, window.mainbox.listview.element

Names are prefixed with a #

List of names in rofi:

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

State

State: State of widget

Optional flag(s) indicating state.

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

#window.mainbox.sidebar.button selected.normal { }

#window.mainbox.listview.element selected.urgent { }

Currently only the entrybox and scrollbar 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:

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

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

The scrollbar when drawing uses the handle state when drawing the small scrollbar handle. Allowing overriding of color.

File structure

The file is structured as follows

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

#{name} {optional state} {
    {list of properties}
}
#{name}.{optional state} {
    {list of properties}
}

The global properties an freeĺy be mixed between entries. Name and state can be separated by a comman, or joined using a dot.

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.
• distance:
  • {size}{unit} {line-style}
    • unit can be px,em,%. for px {size} is an integer number, for %,em it is a positive real.
    • {line-style} can be dash or solid and is optional.
• padding: ({distance}){1,4}
• position: (center|north|south|east|west|northeast|northwest|southwest|southeast)

Each property is closed by a semi-colon ;;

The following properties are currently supports:

• all widgets:

  • padding: distance
  • margin: distance
  • border: distance
  • background: color
  • foreground: color
  • end: boolean

• window:

  • font: string
  • transparency: string
    • real
    • background
    • screenshot
    • Path to png file
  • position: position The place of the anchor on the monitor.
  • anchor: anchor The anchor position on the window.

• scrollbar

  • foreground: color
  • handle-width: distance
  • handle-color: color
  • foreground: color

• box

  • spacing: distance

• textbox:

  • background: color
  • foreground: color
  • text: The text color to use (falls back to foreground if not set)

• listview:

  • columns: integer
  • fixed-height: boolean
  • dynamic: boolean
  • scrollbar: boolean
  • scrollbar-width: distance
  • cycle: boolean
  • spacing: distance

Resolving properties

It tries to find the longest match down the dependency tree.