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Tabs

tabs: <tab[]>

Provides an abiliy to configure what tabs are shown by rmpc. Each tab contains one or more panes. Panes can be laid out how you want by splitting them via nesting multiple pane layouts. Each pane_type can be displayed multiple times in one or more tabs, but ultimately it is a single instance of the given pane. Check out the default config for reference.

tab

tab: (name: "<string>", border_type: None | Single | Full, pane: Pane | Split)

A single tab that will be shown by rmpc. Each tab has a name that is displayed in the tab bar, the type of border that are going to be displayed and either a single or multiple Panes.

name

name: "<string>"

Each tab has a name which will be displayed in the tab bar and can be used in the SwitchToTab(<name>) keybind.

border_type

border_type: None | Single | Full

Kind of borders that will be displayed around each pane. None means no borders, Single means only borders between panes and Full means borders on each side of each pane. The borders use highlight_border_style for the currently focused pane and borders_style for all others.

pane

pane: Pane | Split

pane_type to display in the given Pane. Can be etither Split or Pane. Split means that given pane will be split into multiple sub panes. Pane simply displays the given pane_type.

Pane | Split

  • Pane(<pane_type>) - Displays the given pane type itself.
  • Split(direction: Horizontal | Vertical, panes: <sub_panes[]>) splits the pane into multiple sub panes. Each split has a direction and a list of sub panes.

direction

direction: Horizontal | Vertical

Determines which direction the pane will be split into.

panes

panes: (size: '<50%>', pane: Split() | Pane(<pane_type>)

Sub panes for the given split. The sizes of sub panes must add up to 100% and size of each individual sub pane cannot be 0%. Each sub pane can be either a Pane or another Split.

pane_type

Rmpc has several pane_types which can be displayed. These are:

  • AlbumArt - The album art. Cannot be focused.
  • Queue - Table of the current song queue.
  • Directories - Browse music library by directory.
  • Artists - Browse music library by artist tag.
  • AlbumArtists - Browse music library by albumartist tag.
  • Albums - Browse music library by album tag.
  • Playlists - Browse saved playlists.
  • Search - Search music library.