Hi lemmings, I trying to do a port of my current rice to eww to reduce dependencies, got my status bar done as well as the powermenu the only thing left was notifications that I din’t even implement in my current setup, what’s the notification deamon you are using and how do you integrate it with other apps in my case would be just opening a window.
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dunston X but it works on wayland too. It just listens to dbus and should be trivial to get set up.Do you know of any good guide/tutorial on how to use eww? I tried with the official documentation but I couldn’t understand it
Yeah the documentation is quite lacking, some examples would be useful, but if you go to their repo along side the examples they list there a tutorial to make a power menu that does a good introduction.
Some tips I found along the way
- The way most people calculate time is inefficient AF, they calculate it using the date command updating every 2 s or so. When you could use the date command to update the date itself,every hou, and use and the variable EWW_TIME alongside the function format_time to update the time.
To be fair I don’t blame them, idk why there is not such example in the wiki to begin with.
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The workspaces are a bit hard to do, but you can just copy someone implementation or if you are using hyprland they provide it in the
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Define colours on a separe scss file to change themes on the fly if you want so.
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For Variables that you update manually like volume and brightness do a polling function (checking every x sec), just go to the shortcut you defined previously ( assuming you are using a wm ) and along side the command to change the volume/brightness run
eww update x=$(command to get current value)
I’m going to browse the webarchive later and try to find some dotfiles and try to use them as reference, last time it didn’t go so well and eww kept crashing. I remeber finding some that were beautiful
Yeah I just copied my waybar, but there are guys out there that go nuts with with.
Yeah, I did the same with my waybar but now I don’t like it because I put a lot of stuff in it and I want to start again with hyprland
