swappy
A Wayland native snapshot editing tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS (by jtheoof)
mako
A lightweight Wayland notification daemon (by emersion)
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
swappy
Posts with mentions or reviews of swappy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-09.
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MSPaint like tool for Linux
I think swappy works great as a screenshot annotation tool.
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Trying to use Swappy for the First Time
It will save the file in save_dir (see config section)
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Suggest me: Screenshot tool with anotation
Use any wayland compatible screenshot tool and pipe it into Swappy
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bindsym not working with flameshot
I combine grimshot + swappy to get something similar to Flameshot. Not as good, but it has the advantage of... actually working on Sway.
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How I chose the right screenshot tool for my Linux
I personally use grim + slurp + swappy, and i love it! :)
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redshift like gui application
If you want to edit the screenshot, pipe it through swappy
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swaywm color picker
For those sort of simple jobs, you might find that swappy is enough (and much faster to start and simpler to use).
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Screenshot in Sway
My fav is swappy.
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Lighter alternative to GIMP?
Sounds like Swappy. https://github.com/jtheoof/swappy
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What apps are you running on Sway? (Wayland Native Apps of course)
Screenshots: grim + slurp + swappy
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.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing swappy and mako you can also consider the following projects:
grim - Grab images from a Wayland compositor
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
mpv-image-viewer - Configuration, scripts and tips for using mpv as an image viewer
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
sway-borders - Fork of sway with some extra features, mainly related to borders.
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
qutebrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt.
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
clipman - A simple clipboard manager for Wayland
SimpleFox - 🦊 A Userstyle theme for Firefox minimalist and Keyboard centered.
flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets