wob
A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland. (by francma)
dunst
Lightweight and customizable notification daemon (by dunst-project)
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| wob | dunst | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 42 | |
| 821 | 4,286 | |
| - | 1.8% | |
| 4.8 | 8.8 | |
| 2 months ago | 5 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| ISC License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
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
dunst
Posts with mentions or reviews of dunst.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.
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Cozytile - A Cozy Qtile Rice
OS: Arch Linux WM: Qtile Panel: Qtile bar Launcher: Rofi Notification Daemon: Dunst Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Compositor: Picom File Manager: Nemo Music Player: Spotify & ncmpcpp
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What do I need other than a window manager?
https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst is a pretty popular notification daemon that comes to mind.
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[dwm] Beginning on linux desktop, first ricing
Notification : dunst
- Can't click on prompts in dunst
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Plasma EOS: Why can't I enable DnD and how to I force disable all notifications forever
Your notifications are not provided by Plasma, but by dunst. Either you installed dunst yourself or something else you installed is dependent on dunst.
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Freedesktop Notification Error!
Are you running something able to act on notification requests from programs, e.g. dunst (which is what i use)?
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[BSPWM] My first rice!
OS: Arch Linux WM: Bspwm Compositor: Picom Launcher/Powermenu: Rofi Status Bar: Polybar Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Editor: Neovim Notification: Dunst File Manager: Lf PDF Viewer: Zathura Text fonts: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font DOTFILES: here
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KDE-like automounting?
Here's the documentation to create an asynchronous monitor with pyudev. When a device is plugged in, use subprocess to run notify-send and send a notification through dunst with the proper parameters (search "do_action" in the dunst docs), so for example you can bind your left click to mount and your middle click to mount and open
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Strange Blue push notification So guys, I need help. I don't really remember how this kind of push notification appeared on my Cinnamon here. Can you help me to put the default notification back?
The notification in your screenshot looks like dunst. Removing that notification server should bring back the default notifications by Cinnamon's own notification server (which, AFAIK, is built-in).
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Notification on USB plugging / unplugging
You can use dunst for notifications, minimal and lightweight. I use it for my volume and brightness control along with sxhkd. dunst Hope this helps.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wob and dunst you can also consider the following projects:
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
mako - A lightweight Wayland notification daemon
sfwbar - S* Floating Window Bar
awesome - awesome window manager
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
spicetify-themes - A community-driven collection of themes for customizing Spotify through Spicetify - https://github.com/spicetify/spicetify-cli
volume-notification-dunst - send a nice volume notification
rofi - A huge collection of Rofi based custom Applets, Launchers & Powermenus.
simpleaudioswitcher - Simple rust program to interact with pactl or wpctl switching outputs
rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement
dotfiles - The eternal quest for the best settings for the best programs
gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim