A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for wlroots based Wayland compositors (requires support for wlr_layer_shell_unstable_v1).
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Install dependencies:
- wayland
- inih
- wayland-protocols *
- meson *
- scdoc (optional: man page) *
- libseccomp (optional: Linux kernel syscall filtering) *
- cmocka (optional: tests) *
* compile-time dependency
Run these commands:
git clone git@github.com:francma/wob.git
cd wob
meson build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
Launch wob in a terminal, enter a value (positive integer), press return.
wob
You may manage a bar for audio volume, backlight intensity, or whatever, using a named pipe. Create a named pipe, e.g. /tmp/wobpipe, on your filesystem using.
mkfifo /tmp/wobpipe
Connect the named pipe to the standard input of a wob instance.
tail -f /tmp/wobpipe | wob
Set up your environment so that after updating audio volume, backlight intensity, or whatever, to a new value like 43, it writes that value into the pipe:
echo 43 > /tmp/wobpipe
Adapt this use-case to your workflow (scripts, callbacks, or keybindings handled by the window manager).
See wob.ini.5 for styling and positioning options.
See Contrib space.
- avizo - icons, volume and brightness
- SwayOSD - icons, volume, brightness and keyboard (caps lock, num lock)
- Notification daemon + custom script
- xob - X Overlay Bar - X11 only, inspiration for wob
ISC, see LICENSE.
