wob
A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland. (by francma)
mako
A lightweight Wayland notification daemon (by emersion)
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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
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 wob and mako you can also consider the following projects:
sfwbar - S* Floating Window Bar
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
dust - A more intuitive version of du in rust
volume-notification-dunst - send a nice volume notification
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
simpleaudioswitcher - Simple rust program to interact with pactl or wpctl switching outputs
SimpleFox - 🦊 A Userstyle theme for Firefox minimalist and Keyboard centered.
dotfiles - The eternal quest for the best settings for the best programs
eww - ElKowars wacky widgets