/wldash

Wayland launcher/dashboard

Primary LanguageRustGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

wldash

A dashboard/launcher/control-panel thing for Wayland. Requires wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1.

Consider this alpha-quality: While it works, everything is subject to change with a moments notice. You may end up pulling in the latest changes, and poof, wldash suddenly turns into an artisan espresso machine.

How to use

  1. Checkout: git clone https://github.com/kennylevinsen/wldash
  2. Build: cargo build --release
  3. Put somewhere: cp target/release/wldash /usr/local/bin/wldash
  4. Run: wldash

To display wldash on all outputs, set WLDASH_ALL_OUTPUTS=1.

How to use launcher

Assuming https://github.com/kennylevinsen/dot-desktop is installed: eval "$(dot-desktop "$(dot-desktop | wldash)")"

wldash simply takes a new-line separated list of strings, and returns the selection. dot-desktop generates this list, and afterwards processes the selection to return the proper instantiation string. Eval then executes it.

Features

Date and time

In nice, big letters!

3 month calendar

Scroll or click on the months to navigate.

Battery level

Over upower, only visible if upower battery is detected

Audio volume

Over pulseaudio, only visible if pulseaudio connection is successful. Scroll to adjust volume, right-click to toggle mute.

Backlight control

Using backlight sys file, only visible of backlight is detected. Scroll to adjust, right-click to toggle between the extreme values.

Launcher

Works like bemenu: pipe a list into wldash, and it will print out the selection made. Use https://github.com/kennylevinsen/dot-desktop if you want to launch using desktop files.

The launcher also accepts prefix operators to change its mode:

Notable missing features:

  • Scaling of any kind - all sizes are currently hardcoded in pixels
  • Configurability
  • Cleanup and reorganization