.dotfiles VS Waybar

I've been content with my sway configs (dpgraham4401/.dotfiles) for about 2 years, but maybe it's time to see what else is out there. I'm looking for tips/programs/widgets/anything that you've added to your sway setup that you use all the time and has either made your setup more productive or more enjoyable. open floor, links to configs welcome.

my dotfiles

Info and picture in dotfiles repo README

Not the best example but If you look at my waybar configs, at the very bottom, there's a Waybar power button that uses swaynag. You can substitute those flags (number of buttons, text, colors) for variables.

Look at other people's dotfiles and cherry pick what you like :)

I've got a power button that brings up swaynag in my top right corner of you'd like to see my configs https://github.com/dpgraham4401/dotfiles-sway

my dotfiles

If using font-awesome as an icon, I don't believe you can make the icon bigger without making the text bigger. https://github.com/dpgraham4401/dotfiles-sway/tree/master/.config/waybar

If I understand https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration correctly, what is to be displayed is defined in a JSON file that can be located in one of the directories mentioned.

GNU calls their extensions "equivalent to" things I'd have suggested trying ($_I or $-l), but I'm not sure if the equivalents are themselves GNU extensions, too. Regardless, reading this Waybar Github issue about %OI, I get the impression there was a regression at some point, in any case on March 27th 2022 someone says it "used to work fine until recently".

hope it helps. source btw: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/2177

{ config, pkgs, ... }: { wayland.windowManager.sway = let patchedWaybar = pkgs.waybar.overrideAttrs(prev: final: { patches = [ (pkgs.fetchpatch { url = "https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2134.diff"; sha256 = "1hzdv3b8zzps50pdcb8pj9cxwaix4q2d4gsqb9dl9vflgl429hq3"; }) ]; }); in { enable = true; config.bars = [{ statusCommand = "${patchedWaybar}/bin/waybar"; }]; };

See this issue. CSS and only new properties in config are reloaded when SIGUSR2 is triggered.

I think this has just been added to waybar (wlr/workspaces) to work in a similar manner to how it is in sway/workspaces. No need for fake empty terminals. Something was merged for wwlr/workspaces in the waybar github. See - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2089.

Ah, well in looking at their git, it appears some do have fallback font issues. See here - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/215