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)
• xdotool (Tested with version 3.20211022.1 sudo pacman -S xdotool)
• gtk
• a compositor (picom is what I am using or you can use another compositor)

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:

Fun desktop stress toy

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).