wob
A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland. (by francma)
Waybar
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: (by Alexays)

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wob
Posts with mentions or reviews of wob.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-13.
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Been using Gentoo for about a week! I've fallen in love with this distro
WOB (github) for volume/brightness/whatever bar.
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Any software that can get me pop up windows when doing certain stuff?
Well I use wob for volume and brightness control. It’s an overlay bar which shows the current volume. As for the layout I just use the sway/language module on waybar
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Getting volume level from pipewire
if anyone needs more idea for changing volume: https://github.com/francma/wob
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Any way to customize wob?
if you followed the instructions on github (https://github.com/francma/wob) your socket should be located at $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/wob.sock
- Broken brightness control
- How to display volume and brightness indicator in Sway?
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Trying to set up wob following the guide in its github, got stuck.
mkdir ~/git && cd ~/git git clone https://github.com/francma/wob.git cd wob
Waybar
Posts with mentions or reviews of Waybar.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-08-08.
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Pomodoro Timer: Waybar and uair
I am currently using uair integrated in to my Waybar running on my sway window manager. I use it similar to the way I use watson (both as a CLI tool with Waybar integrations), so it is a good fit for me.
- Hyprland waybar custom modules on-click never works
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How to disable some itens in Waybar?
If I understand https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration correctly, what is to be displayed is defined in a JSON file that can be located in one of the directories mentioned.
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Waybar, how to show hour without leading zero?
GNU calls their extensions "equivalent to" things I'd have suggested trying ($_I or $-l), but I'm not sure if the equivalents are themselves GNU extensions, too. Regardless, reading this Waybar Github issue about %OI, I get the impression there was a regression at some point, in any case on March 27th 2022 someone says it "used to work fine until recently".
- [Waybar] Add workspace styles for multiple monitors
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Error installing waybar on arch
hope it helps. source btw: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/2177
- How to get workspaces showing in default waybar-hyprland-git
- Issue with patching package with pull request
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Hyprland with Waybar Config Reloading
See this issue. CSS and only new properties in config are reloaded when SIGUSR2 is triggered.
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Persistent workspaces?
I think this has just been added to waybar (wlr/workspaces) to work in a similar manner to how it is in sway/workspaces. No need for fake empty terminals. Something was merged for wwlr/workspaces in the waybar github. See - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2089.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wob and Waybar you can also consider the following projects:
avizo - A neat notification daemon
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets
sfwbar - S* Floating Window Bar
nwg-panel - GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
pipes.sh - Animated pipes terminal screensaver
dotfiles - The eternal quest for the best settings for the best programs
pywal - 🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
volume-notification-dunst - send a nice volume notification
i3status-rust - Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
simpleaudioswitcher - Simple rust program to interact with pactl or wpctl switching outputs
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

Nutrient – The #1 PDF SDK Library, trusted by 10K+ developers
Other PDF SDKs promise a lot - then break. Laggy scrolling, poor mobile UX, tons of bugs, and lack of support cost you endless frustrations. Nutrient’s SDK handles billion-page workloads - so you don’t have to debug PDFs. Used by ~1 billion end users in more than 150 different countries.
www.nutrient.io
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