how to edit active window widget

[abdmutalib]

hello everyone
anyhow know how to change active window widget to show only the name of the app open ?
for example i wanna show only "google chrome" and not the name of the tabs open

[Rejdukien]

First idea that comes to mind, could use a rewrite rule such as

rewrite:
- pattern: "(.+?) - (Google Chrome|Brave|Firefox)$"
  replacement: "\\2"

Adjust as needed. I actually use the reverse of that (ie. \\1 instead of \\2) to strip the application name from the title. Alternatively you could just display the process name instead of the title, but that's probably not what you're looking for.

[abdmutalib]

tysm, tweaked this approach a bit though

[amnweb]

hello everyone anyhow know how to change active window widget to show only the name of the app open ?

Use the taskbar widget instead of the active window

[tordenflesk]

No workie:

  active_window:
    type: "yasb.active_window.ActiveWindowWidget"
    options:
      label: "{win[title]}"
      label_alt: "[class_name='{win[class_name]}' exe='{win[process][name]}' hwnd={win[hwnd]}]"
      label_no_window: ""
      label_icon: false
      ignore_window: {'classes': [], 'processes': [blackbox.exe], 'titles': [Keypirinha]}
    rewrite:
    - pattern: "(.+?) - (LibreWolf|Google Chrome|Brave|Firefox)$"
      replacement: "\\1"

LibreWolf still shows as WEBSITE - LibreWolf

[stylebending]

LibreWolf still shows as WEBSITE - LibreWolf

You need a different pattern and you need to insert a tab to make sure that "rewrite:" falls under the "options:". Please try this:

  active_window:
    type: "yasb.active_window.ActiveWindowWidget"
    options:
      label: "{win[title]}"
      label_alt: "[class_name='{win[class_name]}' exe='{win[process][name]}' hwnd={win[hwnd]}]"
      label_no_window: ""
      label_icon: false
      ignore_window: {'classes': [], 'processes': [blackbox.exe], 'titles': [Keypirinha]}
      rewrite:
        - pattern: ".*? - (LibreWolf|Google Chrome|Brave|Firefox)$"
          replacement: "\\1"

[tordenflesk]

Librewolf uses — instead of -

Adding that I only get Librewolf, not the title. re-adding the parentheses seems to work.

[Rejdukien]

Yup, the parentheses are a capture group, and via \\1 or \\2 etc you're referencing that capture group. You can find more examples if you look up how regex works... For example you could also add dash and em dash to a class, like [-—] (... If I'm not mistaken) or even completely omit that for a less strict pattern. The rabbit hole goes deep with regex. :P

There's also various different online regex test tools that may assist with making sense of a pattern you're working on.