[Bug]: Angle brackets escaped in text module #2673
Description
Checklist
- I have read the appropriate section in the contributing guidelines
- I believe this issue is a problem with polybar itself and not a misconfiguration on my part
- I have searched for other open and closed issues that may have already reported this problem
- I have checked the known issues page for this problem.
- I have followed the debugging guide to narrow down the problem to a minimal config.
Steps to reproduce
Launch polybar with provided config
Minimal config
[bar/main]
modules-center = text
[module/text]
type = custom/text
CONTENT = some text<some more text>even more textPolybar log
> polybar -c polybar-minimal-config.ini --log=trace
notice: Parsing config file: polybar-minimal-config.ini
- config_parser: Parsing polybar-minimal-config.ini
* Loaded monitor DVI-0 (1920x1080+1280+0)
* Configured DPI = 96x96
* Bar geometry: 1920x24+1280+0; Borders: 0,0,0,0
- bar: Attach X event sink
- bar: Attach signal receiver
- controller: Setup user-defined modules
* Starting application
- controller: Main thread id = 1
* Starting module/text
* Entering event loop (thread-id=1)
- bar: Create renderer
- renderer: Get TrueColor visual
- renderer: Allocate colormap
- renderer: Allocate output window
- renderer: Allocate window pixmaps
- renderer: Allocate graphic contexts
- renderer: Allocate alignment blocks
- renderer: Allocate cairo components
- renderer: Load fonts
warn: No fonts specified, using fallback font "fixed"
notice: Loaded font "fixed" (name=Bitstream Vera Sans, offset=0, file=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera/Vera.ttf)
* Bar window: 0x0a00001
- bar: Reconfigure window
- bar: Set window WM_NAME
- bar: Set window _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE
- bar: Set window _NET_WM_STATE
- bar: Set window _NET_WM_DESKTOP
- bar: Set window _NET_WM_PID
- bar: Map window
- bar: Draw empty bar
- bar: Setup tray manager
* Disabling tray manager (reason: missing `tray-position`)
* module/text: Rebuilding cache
- bar: Force update
* Redrawing bar window
- renderer: flush(2 geom=203x24+859+0, falloff=0)
- bar: Received expose event
notice: Received signal(2): Interrupt
* Eventloop finished
notice: Termination signal received, shutting down...
- controller: Detach signal receiver
- controller: Stop modules
* module/text: Stopping
- module/text: Release sleep lock
* Deconstruction of module/text took 0 ms.
- module/text: Deconstructing
* Waiting for spawned processes to end
* Reached end of application...
Expected behavior
some text<some more text>even more text
Actual behavior
some texteven more text
Window Manager and Version
i3-gaps 4.19.1
Linux Distribution
Linux Mint 20.3
Polybar version
polybar 3.6.1
Features: +alsa +curl +i3 +mpd +network(libnl) +pulseaudio +xkeyboard
X extensions: +randr (+monitors) +composite +xkb +xrm +xcursor
Build type: Release
Compiler: /usr/bin/c++
Compiler flags: -O3 -DNDEBUG -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wsuggest-override
Linker flags: -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wsuggest-override -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wsuggest-override
Additional Context / Screenshots
Since content for custom/text modules is handled as format-NAME (docs,source) all tags are escaped, but since there are no defined tags for the module, there is no way to use a tag to substitute text.