Pecan

Pecan is a bar for macOS. It was built to be highly configurable and — by default — reports the current workspace, network bandwidth, date, battery percentage and time.

Instructions

Pecan requires Übersicht. Once Übersicht is installed, you can clone this repository to where your Übersicht bars are placed.

git clone https://github.com/zzzeyez/Pecan.git $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/Pecan

If Übersicht is running, then the bar should appear.

Customization & Themes

Load themes

Pecan includes a tool pecan-style to allow users to save and load themes. There are, by default, a few included themes.

To use the tool pecan-style, first you must tell it where your Übersicht folder is located:

sed -i -e "s~/Users/zzzeyez/scripts/uber~HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets~g" "$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/Pecan/pecan-style"

And then install the tool:

mv "$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/Pecan/pecan-style" "/usr/local/bin"

Then if you want to load the Fillmore theme, you do it like so:

pecan-style --load fillmore

You can also save and list themes by — respectively — using --save and --list.

Create themes

Because Pecan is styled using CSS3 variables, the top lines of style.css can easily be edited to change properties like opacity, alignment, padding, colors and more. If you are using this bar with Wal, then you should be editing scss/style.scss instead.

Pecan + Xanthia

If Xanthia is installed then it will now use Pecan's CSS/SCSS files.

Optional features

Network Bandwidth

Current download and upload speeds may be shown in the 2nd-to-left element via Ifstat. If Ifstat is not found, then the current wifi network will be displayed instead. To install Ifstat via Homebrew:

brew install ifstat

Workspaces

Current workspace ID can be shown on the left element if ChunkWM is installed, otherwise a power symbol will be shown instead. To install ChunkWM:

brew tap crisidev/homebrew-chunkwm
brew install chunkwm

Wal

Pecan can pull a color palette generated by Wal using Sassc. I have included a script, wal-set, that will perform this.

To install Sassc:

brew install sassc

And then you must change the username at the top of scss/style.scss to that of your own:

sed -i -e "s/zzzeyez/$USER/g" ~/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/Pecan/scss/style.scss

Now you can run the script to use Wal's palettes:

bash ~/Library/Application\ Support/Übersicht/widgets/Pecan/wal-set

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