wayland-rs VS eww

I was initially having some problems with kanshi and was thinking about contributing the new features I wanted. For some of the features I wanted, kanshi's internals would have to change considerably. Since kanshi consists of only ~1500 lines of C, I began writing a replacement for kanshi in Rust. After many hours of reading Wayland protocol specifications, working on shikane, some help from the Smithay project and their Rust implementation of Wayland protocols, shikane was able to replace kanshi on my machines. I have been using it for over 4 months now.

Yes, I agree. Since https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots-rs is deprecated, I'm guessing I should use https://github.com/Smithay/smithay or https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs. As soon as I find a library that can use the protocol, preferably without extra dependency, I'll switch it to that.

There's also https://github.com/Smithay/wayland-rs

Also there is an incomplete Wayland implementation in Rust, but that isn't very actively developed.

I'm trying to get the most out of my OS (Arch with X11 and Awesomewm), but I'm stuck with the widgets. I would like to create/use some utilities like an interactive calendar, small TODO list, dropdown menu, etc. but using the awesomewm widgets is too difficult and limiting. I found eww but it seems as difficult as the former widgets.

Reported and closed upstream: https://github.com/elkowar/eww/issues/712

The reason, why eww would not start, is because i compiled it myself with rustup according to the official documentation (https://elkowar.github.io/eww/) and not by the AUR. After installing it with the AUR it workes in Hyprland. So in conclustion: If you wanna use Eww on Hyprland, use the AUR method and not the method on the Docs!

Are you as mystified as me? I'll save you the google search: eww is Elkowars Wacky Widgets a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.

Well actually there is https://elkowar.github.io/eww. I used it to make my config and also looked at other configs.

I'm guessing one could use [eww](https://elkowar.github.io/eww/) to create buttons/widgets. And the buttons could dispatch commands to any of the wallpaper/theme changing applications to actually execute the change.

I'd like to get informations from xmonad on all the currently active workspaces and which one is the current workspace. Possibly I'd like to format that information into a JSON object for better integration with Eww, which I'm using as a status bar.

Hi all, I'm trying to configure a bar with eww (https://github.com/elkowar/eww) and I' stuck getting the workspace widget to work.

No, as far as I know. I personally use eww and toggle a calendar when clicking on a time widget. I'm using the config in this repo