Include tray in panel
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I want to use nm-applet and I wish I could have its tray-icon here, also for telegram and other applications that use it, I was also thinking that maybe it could be that waybar is supported that already has an implementation of this
I think supporting waybar should be the way to go. I intend to rethink all panel functionality in v0.3 and get rid of the current bars, launcher, notifiers and lock screen.
That could be an option or have the option to delegate the task to a command, as sway does. Sway has its own bar but if you don't like it, it has the option of delegating the work to a command, in this case, waybar
Does this work in waybar at the moment?
The command itself can be any bar e.g. waybar or i3bar-rs or any other
I can do this in newm, if so I haven't tried to do it yet, I don't know how to do it in the first place :(, if you have any idea I'll try it without problems
I just used waybar in newm and it works perfect, the detail is that the newm native bar overlaps waybar.
Run waybar from the console, this leads me to deduce that I can call waybar from the on_startup function, only the detail of the native bar would be left.
Yeah exclusive zones are not respected so also tiled windows overlap waybar at the moment as well.
Supporting exclusive zones is out of scope for v0.2 but I want to be able to use waybar instead of the default bar. That should be quite easy.
nm-applet works?
swaywm makes this way the call of another bar different from the native one, I believe that something similar could be achieved in newm. As for nm-applet I have not been able to test it because the native bar is overlapped. but I consider that if it would work because it is something that waybar handles by itself. as for the windows overlapping waybar is a desired feature, because with Modpress you could see the bar and it does not take space.
I just tested nm-applet and it does work, as I said it is something that waybar handles internally and that even swaywm has not been able to solve natively. As I said it's just a matter of removing the native bar overlaps.
What is the status of this? @jbuchermn
I'm going to add a config option to disable native bars and use a layer shell app instead. Then you should be able to use waybar without issue.
But I have a few bugs to fix that are higher priority. I'll keep this issue up to date
Thank you very much I look forward to this function
@jbuchermn I don't know if this is helpful. With this command you can toggle in waybar
pkill -SIGUSR1 '^waybar$'maybe it will help for waybar integration
I just pushed two commits that enable replacing native bar with waybar. Just disable the native one:
bar = { 'enabled': False }
and start waybar. After hitting Mod it should be visible.
A permanently visible top bar is currently not possible in newms layout - but it's in the backlog for v0.3
thanks