Window Border Decorations

Warning

This feature is experimental.

The decorations may behave unexpectedly, have missing features and will probably crash at some point!

Feedback on any issues would be appreciated.

Window border decorations provide the ability to have different style borders rather than the standard single, solid colour borders.

The following decorations are available:

• ConditionalBorder

• CustomBorder

• GradientBorder

• GradientFrame

• RoundedCorners

• ScreenGradientBorder

• SolidEdge

Using the decorations is simple:

from qtile_extras.layout.decorations import GradientBorder

...

layouts = [
    layout.Max(
        border_width=10,
        margin=5,
        border_focus=GradientBorder(colours=["00f", "0ff"])
    ),
    ...
]

Results in a window looking like this:

See this page for details of the various borders available.

Important

You must import the decorations from qtile_extras.layout.decorations as importing this file will add a hook to inject the code needed to allow qtile to render these borders.