Maximus Window Title

This applet is desinged to work in pair with:

• maximus-buttons@hanspr
• maximus extension to remove the title bar on maximized windows
• Multiple monitors. Add the applet to panels in all monitors to follow windows on different monitors

Features

• It will display the name of the current active window on panel
• Multiple monitors
  • Will show the current active or top most window in each monitor
  • Applet will hightligted with your configured background color on the monitor with the focused window

How to configure

• Install the applet
• Edit the panel and reposition at the center of the panel
  • If in edit mode you do not have a window name active, move the mouse over the applets, until you see it light up and move to the center

Configuration options

• Apply regex to title option
  • It allows you to apply a regex on the title to clean it before display
  • If you don't know how to create e regex or are not sure of its use, leave it blank
  • Default regex: (?:https?|about):.+? -
  • Default regex, removes prepended urls from firefox, chrome extensions like keypass helper url
• Maximum title length
  • Truncate title length, so it fits better on your current panel width
• Focused background color
  • Allows to define a color when the window is focused (useful with multiple monitors)
  • Setting: #RRGGBBAA
  • RRGGBB : traditional red, green, blue combination of primary colors
  • AA : Alpha channel. FF fully transparent , 00 or missing fully opaque.

Limitations

• It will only work on top, bottom panels that have enough width to hold a window title
• No consideration for vertical panels, it's been tested on horizontal panels only

Errors

• Please report any errors in github https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-spices-applets/issues
• Add @hanspr at the beggining of your comment to be notified of your request