nwg-shell
Installer & meta-package for the nwg-shell project: a GTK3-based shell for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors (by nwg-piotr)
nwg-wrapper
Wrapper to display a script output or a text file content on the desktop in sway or other wlroots-based compositors (by nwg-piotr)
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nwg-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.
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Hyprland desktop environment without tinkering
nwg-shell
- nwg-shell: AUR updates issue resolved
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nwg-shell 0.5.8
Release notes
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nwg-shell 0.5.5
Could you please report directly on this thread? I don't do packaging for Fedora. There are two packagers, and I'm not sure if they did any progress lately.
- nwg-shell 0.5.3 released
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Best window manager for Arch with
Since this is your first foray into this world I’d suggest you look into nwg-shell. It’s a sway (and hyprland) based WM that brings some of the niceties of a desktop over to this WM world for you. It comes complete with a gui for setting all the configs, and 4 desktop options, plus the ability to change it to your hearts content. There’s a dock, an app drawer, wallpaper app, and tons of things to tinker with. It’s written in Go and Python and you can change pretty much anything however you want.
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May I remove the DwlTags module from nwg-panel?
This could be consider in the future. Please open a thread in Discussions before you submit a PR.
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nwg-shell 0.4.0 & nwg-shell-config 0.4.11 - slightly cumbersome update
See: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/discussions/58
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Is there any way to replicate material-shells's ui/ux in sway?
I would suggest the nwg-shell project
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nwg-panel 0.7.15
In case I might be of help in some way during packaging, just let me know, preferably through Discussions.
nwg-wrapper
Posts with mentions or reviews of nwg-wrapper.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
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Using nwg-wrapper for a HUD of help for sway modes
Usage: sway-mode [-c,--config config-file] [-C,--css css-file] mode Puts sway into mode 'mode' and displays some help by extracting a section from the config file. Options: -c,--config config_file location of your config file (/home/bhepple/.config/sway/config) -C,--css css_file location of your css file (/home/bhepple/.config/nwg-wrapper/mode-help.css) Requires nwg-wrapper https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper Assumes modes are defined in the config file like this: mode "foobar" { ... } To use this, reassign the bindkey command for the mode like this: bindsym $mod+s exec sway-mode "swap" and in the mode definition, change the mode ending keys to # back to default mode bindsym q exec pkill nwg-wrapper; mode "default" bindsym Return exec pkill nwg-wrapper; mode "default" bindsym Escape exec pkill nwg-wrapper; mode "default" Here's a sample CSS file: window { font-family: "Monospace"; color: rgba (255, 255, 255, 1.0); background-color: rgba (255, 255, 255, 0.1); } #box-inner { background-color: rgba (23, 53, 63, 0.7); border-radius: 5px; border-style: dotted; border-width: 1px; border-color: rgba (156, 142, 122, 0.7); padding: 10px; }
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Digital overlay clock?
Here's a script that uses nwg-wrapper to display a countdown - it would be easy to modify it to display a digital clock.
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How can I use a terminal/application as wallpaper?
Maybe take a look at nwg-wrapper
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Counting down before gtklock or suspend
The countdown into gtklock is created by my script sway-count which uses nwg-wrapper.
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Mucking about with layers
For example, this works using nwg-wrapper :
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is a good practice to put ANY idea on github?
Nope. https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper/commit/f4c4dc6e9a568ade8b3bce02d73f528a50b02928
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Any tip on optimizing this?
Here's my script. It forks off a playerctl --follow with a custom format to work around read skipping empty items (like a song without an artist). You don't have to do that, I just prefer that so I can add nwg-wrapper to view album art and song title on my desktop without spinning up another playerctl read loop.
- Is there some app that lets you launch a simple text overlay?
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Show local IP permanent on desktop
If your compositor supports layer-shell (i.e., not Gnome) then maybe nwg-wrapper would work.
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gtklock and nwg-wrapper - let's rice the lock!
I had a play with gtklock today and wondered if it would work with nwg-wrapper to enhance the lock screen. It turns out that they work together very well - see screenshot. I've also modified my script for various styles of locking so that it supports gtklock: mylock
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nwg-shell and nwg-wrapper you can also consider the following projects:
nwg-dock - GTK3-based dock for sway
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
azote - Wallpaper manager for wlroots-based compositors and some other WMs
wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor
nwg-drawer - Application drawer for wlroots-based Wayland compositors
i3wm-Cheatsheet - i3wm Cheatsheet
Sway-DE - 🏠 Sway desktop environment dotfile installation for Arch Linux
nwg-shell-config - nwg-shell configuration utility
dtao
swayblur - Basic i3ipc based script to blur an output's wallpaper when a client is present in it