=== Blocks in detail
full_text::
- The most simple block you can think of is one which just includes the
- only required key, the +full_text+ key. i3bar will display the string
- value parsed as
- https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html[Pango markup].
+ The +full_text+ will be displayed by i3bar on the status line. This is the
+ only required key.
short_text::
Where appropriate, the +short_text+ (string) entry should also be
provided. It will be used in case the status line needs to be shortened
this gap, a separator line will be drawn unless +separator+ is
disabled. Normally, you want to set this to an odd value (the default
is 9 pixels), since the separator line is drawn in the middle.
+markup::
+ A string that indicates how the text of the block should be parsed. Set to
+ +"pango"+ to use https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html[Pango markup].
+ Set to +"none"+ to not use any markup (default).
If you want to put in your own entries into a block, prefix the key with an
underscore (_). i3bar will ignore all keys it doesn’t understand, and prefixing