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mako
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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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Was told y'all might like my new laptop setup
The little one at the bottom right is mako, the music player is ncmpcpp and the music visualiser is cava
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Notification center like window for sway
Not really the same but still a cool notification Daemon https://github.com/emersion/mako
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What are some automation scripts that have made your life easier?
# Details I'm an English speaker living abroad, and while I'm trying to learn the local language it's real hard. I found myself popping open a browser to use deepl quite frequently, or trying to find translator plugins for several different applications. To make this process easier, I wrote a script (bound to a hotkey) which will screenshot a selected area, OCR it, translate it to english, and show a notification with the translated text. It also copies the translated text to the clipboard. Why screenshot + OCR rather than just selecting and copying text? Images and screen-sharing, mostly. I think this is just a really cool way to show how the hard parts have usually been done for you, and all you need to do is put the blocks together. ## Implementation I'm running sway, so the several of the tools are Wayland specific. You could easily swap them out for xorg compatible variants if you like. The script is [here](https://github.com/rbuchberger/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/screenshot\_translate). The toolchain is: * [Slurp](https://github.com/emersion/slurp) - select an area * [Grim](https://github.com/emersion/grim) - screenshot that area * [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) - OCR * [Translate Shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell/) - Translation CLI * [Mako](https://github.com/emersion/mako) - Notification window Mako needed a little configuration to show long form text: [category=translation] width=900 height=1200 Edit: added details and links for the tools used.
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[sway] fake busy for the updoots
notification: mako
sway
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"We understand" ;)
This is partially why i use tools like i3 (/ sway). i like the tool; it works extremely well for me; the design has stayed the same for 20 years; there's no profit motive to come along and fuck everything up. it just works. it is boring in the best way possible.
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Firefox on the Brink?
I also have crashes on sway, but there’s a rough workaround now which prevents the issue totally.
I believe there’s a design issue with Firefox and GTK handling input events; some Wayland compositors have workarounds but others do not.
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/7645
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
Firefox is my preferred browser and I hope we can keep its engine alive in this era of Chrome dominance.
- Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop
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On Desktop GUI Minimalism
Sway is fast, minimal, and flexible. Their recommended tools/addons are worth a look: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
From that list I use greetd + tuigreet as my login manager, sway-launcher-desktop for FZF-powered app launching, and wob for lightweight brightness and volume display (send '50' to the wob socket and it'll show 50%; it doesn't get simpler).
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The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant
Sensitive features like screenshots, input methods, screen locking and whatnot are behind extensions (or portals). I'm not familiar with the state of GNOME/KDE/Flatpak, but at least on the wlroots side of things it is true that currently these extensions are enabled and accessible by any process that can talk to the Wayland socket (breaking those security benefits, as you say). This is changing with protocols such as security-context that allow a sandbox engine like Flatpak (or your custom scripts) to restrict what features apps can use. (so your browser can't register an input method, or some random app can't lock the screen)
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/m...
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Rethinking Window Management in Gnome
sway does all those things very well: https://swaywm.org/
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Using nwg-wrapper for a HUD of help for sway modes
I've added it to https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway
- What is a good windows tiling manager for beginners?
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Wayland Is Pretty Good
https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4763
sad to see another linux api design failure
- A linux newbie has installed and configured Arch. Minimalist graphical capabilities?
What are some alternatives?
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
i3 - A tiling window manager for X11
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
awesome-wayland - A curated list of Wayland code and resources.
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
qtile - :cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
dmenu-wayland - dmenu for wayland-compositors
weston - Weston is a Wayland compositor designed for correctness, reliability, predictability, and performance