mako
A lightweight Wayland notification daemon (by emersion)
Waybar
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: (by Alexays)
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mako
Posts with mentions or reviews of mako.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-27.
- where does mako stores it's history?
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[wofi] how would I go about making this?
So, using this github issue as a reference, I'm trying to make a wofi menu that appears when a bluetooth file transmission is sent to my PC from my phone (or any other device for that matter).
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Transparent or/and non-interactive notifications
I currently use mako for the notifications. When I play Strategy Games (Mouse is all over the place) and a notifcation pops up, the mouse gets stuck on the notification message until I click it.
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Any software that can get me pop up windows when doing certain stuff?
I use avizo as a volume indicator, mako for notifications generally.
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Is there some app that lets you launch a simple text overlay?
I guess some standard notifications app like https://github.com/emersion/mako doesn't suffice, as it isn't related to a window?
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Thoughts over MicroOS aftering giving a try
mako is a Wayland notification daemon from one of the principal Sway/wlroots devs, and is currently provided with openSUSEway. It's pretty minimalist, but so are most things in the Sway/wlroots ecosystem.
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Long time Arch user, moved to Gentoo a couple months ago.
It's a notification, I use mako: https://github.com/emersion/mako
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Notifications: mako
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Notification daemon priority
Is there any way to force dbus to use a specific notification daemon? On one of my systems, I run both Plasma and Sway. The latter obviously doesn't have a notification system, so I'm using mako. As far as I can tell, mako automatically launches when a notification is fired, however this causes an issue with Plasma. Plasma seems to be shutting down its own notification daemon in favor of anything else that's running, and I'm not sure if there's a way to prevent it from doing that
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Toggling floating windows for thunderbird notification
I don’t use Thunderbird, but does it support using FreeDesktop notifications e.g. that would work with Mako? Some applications will fall back to their own windows if there’s no notification daemon running.
Waybar
Posts with mentions or reviews of Waybar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-09.
- Hyprland waybar custom modules on-click never works
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How to disable some itens in 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.
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Waybar, how to show hour without leading zero?
GNU calls their extensions "equivalent to" things I'd have suggested trying ($_I or $-l), but I'm not sure if the equivalents are themselves GNU extensions, too. Regardless, reading this Waybar Github issue about %OI, I get the impression there was a regression at some point, in any case on March 27th 2022 someone says it "used to work fine until recently".
- [Waybar] Add workspace styles for multiple monitors
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Error installing waybar on arch
hope it helps. source btw: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/2177
- How to get workspaces showing in default waybar-hyprland-git
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Issue with patching package with pull request
{ config, pkgs, ... }: { wayland.windowManager.sway = let patchedWaybar = pkgs.waybar.overrideAttrs(prev: final: { patches = [ (pkgs.fetchpatch { url = "https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2134.diff"; sha256 = "1hzdv3b8zzps50pdcb8pj9cxwaix4q2d4gsqb9dl9vflgl429hq3"; }) ]; }); in { enable = true; config.bars = [{ statusCommand = "${patchedWaybar}/bin/waybar"; }]; };
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Hyprland with Waybar Config Reloading
See this issue. CSS and only new properties in config are reloaded when SIGUSR2 is triggered.
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Persistent workspaces?
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.
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How do I set Waybar’s font?
Ah, well in looking at their git, it appears some do have fallback font issues. See here - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/215
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mako and Waybar you can also consider the following projects:
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
SimpleFox - 🦊 A Userstyle theme for Firefox minimalist and Keyboard centered.
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
plata-theme