nwg-wrapper VS nwg-shell

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; }

Here's a script that uses nwg-wrapper to display a countdown - it would be easy to modify it to display a digital clock.

Take a look at https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper

The countdown into gtklock is created by my script sway-count which uses nwg-wrapper.

Nope. https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper/commit/f4c4dc6e9a568ade8b3bce02d73f528a50b02928

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.

If your compositor supports layer-shell (i.e., not Gnome) then maybe nwg-wrapper would work.

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

Also https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-wrapper

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.

If it comes to installing on AL, I posted some details here: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/discussions/17

You can install sway from the Arch repo. Can I suggest /u/nwg-piotr's implementation of Sway?

Check this out: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell

For Wayland, I recently adopted nwg-shell at work. It's based on sway and I think it's awesome!

Try > Wayfire with nwg-shell i think it will be the best option for you. It has also gestures if you also use a touchpad

If you're on Arch Linux, you could try all the nwg-shell project. https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell

nwg-launcher

nwg-shell looks like it is just that, Sway with a few integrated desktop niceties.

You could also take a look at this project. However, just a part of the packages is available for Fedora. You'd need to put it together manually.