Hi lemmings, I trying to do a port of my current rice to eww to reduce dependencies, got my status bar done as well as the powermenu the only thing left was notifications that I din’t even implement in my current setup, what’s the notification deamon you are using and how do you integrate it with other apps in my case would be just opening a window.
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dunston X but it works on wayland too. It just listens to dbus and should be trivial to get set up.Do you know of any good guide/tutorial on how to use eww? I tried with the official documentation but I couldn’t understand it
Yeah the documentation is quite lacking, some examples would be useful, but if you go to their repo along side the examples they list there a tutorial to make a power menu that does a good introduction.
Some tips I found along the way
- The way most people calculate time is inefficient AF, they calculate it using the date command updating every 2 s or so. When you could use the date command to update the date itself,every hou, and use and the variable EWW_TIME alongside the function format_time to update the time.
To be fair I don’t blame them, idk why there is not such example in the wiki to begin with.
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The workspaces are a bit hard to do, but you can just copy someone implementation or if you are using hyprland they provide it in the
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Define colours on a separe scss file to change themes on the fly if you want so.
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For Variables that you update manually like volume and brightness do a polling function (checking every x sec), just go to the shortcut you defined previously ( assuming you are using a wm ) and along side the command to change the volume/brightness run
eww update x=$(command to get current value)
