wob
A lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland. (by francma)
swayidle
Idle management daemon for Wayland (by swaywm)
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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
swayidle
Posts with mentions or reviews of swayidle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
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runwhenidle - Linux utility that can automatically pause a computationally-intensive command when user is in front of a computer and resume it when they are away.
X11 is not necessary. For example: swayidle.
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Sway 1.8-rc2 has been released!
14 minutes ago: swayidle 1.8.0
- Why do wayfire took so long to load configs?
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Understanding how idle works
Because of the way logind awkwardly duplicates the idle management of the compositor, but in a way that splinters client tooling, and without any of the access or convenience of the compositor, logind integration is a candidate for removal from swayidle: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/issues/117.
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Sway external display
What does your swayidel configuration look like, or what are you using that triggers the computer to be suspended?
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Update: swaylock issues after latest kernel update
I suggest to anyone who was having my same problem to update the kernel and comment on the issue I opened on GitHub to get this solved on Sway side.
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idling and locking in sway
Yes it also listens to dbus signals from logind. Those features kinda duplicate the wayland ones so there's some discussion about dropping them: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/issues/117
- some questions
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Help with simple script to launch and kill app based on user activity
Swayidle info: https://github.com/swaywm/swayidle/blob/master/swayidle.1.scd
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Inhibit swayidle upon gamepad use
To select a specific input; run the latest upstream code of swayidle. Namely, the feature for seat selection was add in this PR
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wob and swayidle you can also consider the following projects:
avizo - A neat notification daemon
swaylock - Screen locker for Wayland
sfwbar - S* Floating Window Bar
wayvnc - A VNC server for wlroots based Wayland compositors
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
swayidle - Idle management daemon for Wayland