/lima-xbar-plugin

xbar/Swiftbar plugin to control lima-vm

Primary LanguagePythonApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

lima-xbar-plugin

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Lima is an alternative to using Docker Desktop on your Mac.

Description

This plugin is compatible with xbar and SwiftBar, and provides a menubar app that creates a Lima menubar option with submenus for each Lima VM on your machine. For each VM, you can:

  • start/stop the VM
  • stop, start or remove stopped containers
  • pull or remove images from the VM
  • Run an arbitrary command inside the VM with lima

Screen shots

Screen shot of xbar menu with container submenu for a running vm

Screen shot of xbar menu with image submenu for a running vm

Theme

Rename the plugin file to lima-plugin.[theme].[time_ext] to switch to the specified theme

e.g.

  • lima-plugin.10s -> default
  • lima-plugin.default.10s -> default
  • lima-plugin.text.10s -> text
  • lima-plugin.sf_simple.10s -> sf_simple
  • lima-plugin.sf_simple.10s.py -> sf_simple

Theme default: Theme default

Theme text: Theme text

Theme sf_simple: Theme sf_simple 1 Theme sf_simple 2

Installation

Copy lima-plugin to ~/Library/Application\ Support/xbar/plugins/lima-plugin.30s, or run make install

Dependencies

  • xbar or SwiftBar - Both allow you to make custom menubar apps with simple scripts.