• myxi@toast.oooOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Eventually I’m going to push it my dotfiles Git repository, but right now I’m still figuring out the theming so it’s not up yet.

      • myxi@toast.oooOPEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Alright. I pushed the changes to remote.

        NOTE: Waybar has a built-in module for showing temperature, it’s just that I couldn’t make it work for me and that’s why I have a custom module to show CPU temperature. I recommend that you try the built-in one first (since it might work on your machine) for more minimal setup.

        • Victor@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Much appreciated! I’ll use this as a sort of reference while I’m combing through the Waybar wiki and configuring my own. 😊👍

          One thing I’m eager to get working is to somehow animate switching workspaces. I have my workspaces looking like little pills right now. Small, round circles. But I want the selected workspace to kind of expand and stretch into an elongated pill upon being selected.

          Would you happen to know if this is at all possible or is it not worth attempting because it wouldn’t be supported?

            • Victor@lemmy.world
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              1 day ago

              Ah okay, that’s a shame. Thanks for your above and beyond effort in answering my question! 😄❤️

          • myxi@toast.oooOPEnglish
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            2 days ago

            Waybar uses GTK stylesheets for the theming. In theory, GTK CSS does have support for transitions and animations, which could be used in your case. But I’d say it’s a hard sell still. That aside I’ve never tried them in GTK, so I wouldn’t know if they even work in practice or how far.

            I think you have a shot at this with eww instead. But it’s harder to work with and you’ll need to make somewhat complex scripts I’d imagine.

            • Victor@lemmy.world
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              12 hours ago

              I think you have a shot at this with eww […] it’s harder to work with

              Uh huh! 😆 I was running i3 for like a decade before very recently, and a couple of years ago I got tired of the limitations of polybar and I basically rewrote all of its functionality and the modules and behavior I wanted beyond that, in eww widgets. Took me a few months to get everything the way I wanted to have it, with rich media control widgets and weather widgets and i3 workspace control and styling and, and, and.

              It was super possible! But it was clunky for sure. Lots of supporting scripts and lots of strongly coupled integration of those scripts and manually refreshing eww state data in my i3 config bindings.

              I’ve been eyeing Aylur’s Astal widget system as well, but I’m a little hesitant that it’ll be more of the same—configuration by programming (which is fine), with big gains in functionality, but with little gain in terms of appearance.

              • myxi@toast.oooOPEnglish
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                1 day ago

                Yesterday I heard of https://quickshell.outfoxxed.me/ but have never tried it myself. They have some pretty decent examples of widgets on their homepage. I think they have their own little langauge called QML which appears to be turing-complete.

                Maybe that’s what you’re missing.

                • Victor@lemmy.world
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                  12 hours ago

                  Holy crap. That showreel carousel on their homepage literally made my jaw drop. No, literally made it drop.

                  Thank you so much for introducing me to that; that looks like it’s exactly what I’ve been dreaming about doing to my desktop for the last 15 or so years.

                  I owe you a beer or something.