Hi, this is my first post in the list. While pushing 3.4 to his limit, I had problem with the vertical layouts. Flex is nice, but when you want to write a "conky like" desktop wibox, add some live informations in a naughty notication, add icons on the desktop using a single wibox and some other limitation that I did not found yet, flex just don't do the job. Horizontal layouts have leftright and rightleft and it work fine, so I ported them to the vertical layout.
I know that they are present in git, but according to lukkash on IRC, trying to backport them would have been harder. I think this modification should be added in 3.4.2 just because it is lacking and the next release is far away. It work fine for me and is a strait forward port from horizontal, so unless I forgot something, it should not have introduced bugs. Here is the code: http://pastebin.ca/1671608 Now somethign totally different, the ability to stack wiboxes kind of disappeared in 3.4, here is a little function that restore it, if you want to add it, just comment the line that hide wiboxes when a new one appear and call this function in wibox.set_position and wibox_update_strut. I think stacjing is a more logical behavior than going on top. I see the current behavior as a bug, but I understand that many of you are not agree so I just post the code here, do what you want with it. function get_offset(position, wibox) local offset = 0 for _,wprop in ipairs(wiboxes)do if wprop.wibox.position == position then if wprop.wibox.visible == true then if wprop.wibox ~= wibox then offset = offset + wprop.wibox.height end end end end return offset end
