BEVELBAR-WIDGET-EMPTY(1)
π bevelbar-widget-empty β bestie's official man page π
okay so real talk, this is bevelbar-widget-empty(1) from the General Commands Manual, and it's genuinely the most low-effort icon in the whole widget friend group. Let's get into it. π
β¨ NAME β¨
bevelbar-widget-empty β literally just shows an empty segment in bevelbar. That's it. That's the whole job. no cap. π«Ά
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
bevelbar-widget-empty [monitor]
π DESCRIPTION π
okay so here's the vibe: you can use this program like any other bevelbar(1) widget. it does absolutely nothing except show an empty segment. it's giving "I'm here for moral support" energy and honestly? iconic. π
The options are as follows:
monitorβ if you set this, the empty segment will only show up on this monitor. like, it stays in its own lane. main character energy, but localized. π¦
π EXAMPLE π
the whole idea is that you launch bevelbar-widget-empty as a widget inside of bevelbar(1), like so:
#!/bin/sh
bevelbar ... 'some_widget' 'bevelbar-widget-empty' 'another_one'
see how it's just chilling between 'some_widget' and 'another_one'? that's the whole flex. β¨
π LICENSE π
bevelbar-widget-empty is released under the MIT license. see the accompanying LICENSE file. very demure, very legal. π
π°οΈ HISTORY π°οΈ
bevelbar-widget-empty was originally written by Peter Hofmann. the project was started in January 2016. yes bestie, 2016 β it's been serving empty segments since before some of us could drive. π
π SEE ALSO π
bevelbar(1)β the main event, go read that one too. π₯
and that's the tea, bestie π this page you just read is the Debian build, dated 2025-08-04 β BEVELBAR-WIDGET-EMPTY(1), General Commands Manual, out here doing the absolute least and doing it flawlessly. slay, honestly. π
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixos 26.05: bevelbar 25.08
- nixpkgs unstable: bevelbar 25.08
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms