qtile-extras VS qtile-examples

I have tried to implement the Rect Decoration with the Systray widget. I am having some troubles. The Rect Decoration decor isn't actually filling in the Systray widget. I tried to follow a github issue that was solved here, but have had no success. I will paste what I have in my config below, along with a screenshot. Any help would be amazing!

This configuration uses Qtile extra package and one of my favourite picom fork for minimalistic look with rounded-corners

Have a look at this widget for an example: https://github.com/elParaguayo/qtile-extras/blob/main/qtile_extras/widget/network.py

All of these can be found in my qtile-extras repo. More info is also available in the docs.

This has just been merged: https://github.com/elParaguayo/qtile-extras/pull/55

You might want to take a look at my Wordclock widget (source code) as this is something that sets the wallpaper regularly.

As for the button effect, you can do something like this using widget decorations from my qtile-extras repo.

I'm one of the developers for Qtile. I've made a number of widgets and other mods for Qtile that aren't going to end up in the main repo so I've hosted them in a separate repo, qtile-extras.

I have also combined this with some navigation over different focus/screens that I found here: https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/master/traverse.py

Did you look at the linked examples in the official repo? I'm not aware of any other resource like that, except for some bits I found through this subreddit.

There is a qtile-examples repository, full of people's setups and tweaks.

basic notification system and example server

Most importantly, there are lines that define keybindings to start programs. I don't use qtile, but I think this example will help you figure things out. For instance, there is the # start specific apps section that explains that (with the given config) you have to press the mod key + n to start the browser or mod key + Enter to start the terminal.

Declaration for each 'theme'. (See qtile-examples for how to separate qtile into multiple files.)

I'm not completely dumbstruck, for example I can see that in this config the dev uses functions and hooks (idk what hooks are, sounds like a way to add event-driven functionality) to automatically set the window type to floating if the window name is equal to x.

You can find some example configs at qtile-examples but, note, some of those configs are quite old.

https://github.com/qtile/qtile-examples/blob/92c2659e771b42ca52342996181f2c1b3fdb0324/cjbarnes/config.py (line 60)