centaur-tabs VS awesome-tray

I just took a look at centaur-tabs source code, it is not very difficult to write that functionality yourself. I have never used centaur-tabs, so no idea what tabsets and groups and whatnot they use really are, but look at this function:

I have the same problem on multiple platforms with centaur tabs and found this igithub ssue with a workaround: https://github.com/ema2159/centaur-tabs/issues/181

Out of curiosity, did you try centaur-tabs before making your own mode? It might have gotten you reasonably close to what you were after. Though I know from personal experience, that “close” might as well be light years sometimes… lol

centaur-tabs

Centaur tabs can signal unsaved buffers and the buffer's major mode (as an icon). You can hide the modeline completely if that's all you need.

Haven't tried this, but might be worth looking at Centaur-tabs https://github.com/ema2159/centaur-tabs

Honestly there's not much thinking behind my tabs usage. I use centaur tabs which groups relevant tabs together in a way I quite like.

Have you tried centaur-tabs? Seems like that would get you to full parity.

I can add to that discussion emacs-mini-modeline which looks a lot like awesome tray already mentioned there.

you may try this https://github.com/manateelazycat/awesome-tray

mini-modeline is a nice job, but now I'm using doom-modeline. In the past, I had used another similar package awesome-tray that is nice as well. Just check it out : )

Since around a week I'm testing awesome-tray (https://github.com/manateelazycat/awesome-tray not in ELPA/MELPA for now) the clock is defined as (format-time-string "W.%W %a %d %b %H:%M:%S") so to have ISO week, time and date second included but it's not so slick since sometimes update function get blocked by some process so the clock remain "freezed", when switching buffer it get refreshed. Also while really minimal as I like with awesome-tray I loose the ability to resize windows with the mouse... Probably I'll came back to mini-modeline mode soon...