Marty Oehme
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Added a simple wayland configuration. Currently set up simple wayland configuration based on river window manager and waybar. Rivercarro is the layout manager, being the same in principle as rivertile, the default layout manager for river, only it comes with smart gaps (gaps turn off if there is only one window open) and monocle mode (give one window all space). Runs `keyd` in the background to replace the old `xcape` capslock switching (capslock is escape and if held control). Uses `swaybg` to set a wallpaper. Added powermenu and lockscreen scripts. Improved lockscreen script to detect and work for wayland. Moved old rofi mode 'powermenu' to more general powermenu script, which works with any rofi-like selector (dmenu, bemenu, wofi, etc.) Loses some of its design quality but since it was wonky anyway, and I rarely see the menu, we could repurpose its functionality for a more general powermenu concept. Currently hardcoded for `bemenu` but can be easily swapped and possibly even extended back to rofi. Fixed file upload link sharing to clipboard. Updated rofi-pass to pass-pick. Made rofi-pass universal and less integrated to rofi - that's also the reason for the name change. `pass-pick` works with rofi (default), bemenu or dmenu. In theory it should also work with any other picker that contains a stdin listing function similar to dmenu. It has been definitely tested both on rofi and bemenu. The best user experience still reigns on rofi, where available keys are displayed on the picker and the keys themselves make the most sense. But all functions can be reached from bemenu as well, though the key mappings are more arbitrary and can not be changed as in rofi. The autofilling tool works with both xdotool and ydotool, so should work both on X11 and on Wayland. Ydotool ideally requires its daemon to be running, otherwise some of the typing may get gut off. Otherwise no change should be necessary. Updated qutebrowser open_download for bemenu. Updated download opening script to work with both rofi and bemenu. Prefers original rofi implementation but works with both, and can be set to use a custom dmenu-like file picker as well. Add brightnessctl and removed custom audio / brightness scripts since they became unnecessary. Updated bootstrap script to include system files: With `keyd` taking its configuration from the `/etc` directory and not home, a second stow stage was necessary. These stow files are in a module called `system-packages` inside the top-level `bootstrap` stow package. They will not be installed by the default dotfile stow invocation but have been integrated as an extra step into the install script. Installing this module requires sudo privileges! Switched vifm überzug to sixel graphics rendering. überzug relies on X11 functionality to work, while sixel does not. Unfortunately, alacritty does not work with sixel graphics yet, only foot does (somewhat). Waybar currently runs the gruvbox dark soft color scheme. Added the old polybar archupdates script to waybar and extended it to output json format with additional metadata that waybar can read. Can still output the old plaintext format that polybar expects. Added a wireguard connection to waybar,shows if currently connected to either a wireguard or tun VPN service. If so, shows an icon in the waybar - that can be hovered over to show the full assigned IP address. Added an upcoming event display to waybar, a simple event indicator to show upcoming events on the calendar, on hovering over it the tooltip lists all upcoming events. Added `screenshot` script to take simple screenshots and rectangle region shots of the current output. Can be invoked through the river shortcut PrintScr: `PrintScr` - Fullscreen screenshot `Mod+PrintScr` - Region screenshot `Shift+PrintScr` - Fullscreen screenshot and file upload `Mod+Shift+PrintScr` - Region screenshot and file upload Extended `sharefile` to take paths through stdin and make use of `fd` if it is found on the system.
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wayland
My first foray into wayland is based on river, a tiling window manager somewhat based on bspwm.
This is only a very work-in-progress README file.
Since wayland handles key presses and so on completely differently from X, I can't for example use sxhkd which is a shame.
Missing
not set up:
- lockscreen
- power menu -- rofi on X
- extensive run menu (clipboard, open windows) -- rofi on X
- clipboard manager
- pass frontend dropdown -- clipboard and xdotool
- investigate wtype over ydotool
- file uploading (works but without url clipboard)
- open_download (qutebrowser script)
- gap regulation
- brightnessctl
- waybar and various status modules
- include waybar in styler settings
- pacman new packages in status
- personal keyboard layout (ae, oe, ue, ..)
- styler
- still works as before, only less programs respect xresources settings
- works even for foot, if I want to switch to it
- need to set it up for waybar
- dropdown terminal and dropdown todo
- rofimoji emoji dropdown -- clipboard
- show current mode
- [-] hide cursor
- [-] dropdown calculator -- rofi on X -- could use
qalcdirectly - [-] modes: media, academia (worth?)
- [-] picture in terminal, a-la ueberzug
- ueberzug is X only
- there is sixel rendering for foot, st, xterm, urxvt
- alacritty does not support sixel rendering yet, see also existing sixel implementation.
- We have sixel support enabled in vifm and foot. It is very wonky, however.
undecided
- polybar -> waybar / yambar
- foot / alacritty
River
River is set up to come close to my old i3 setup. Of course, some mappings are different (especially those for movement between windows), but overall the keys map to the old ones.
Since the window manager now also takes over the task of compositor
and does not pass through all keys to all programs,
it takes over the role of sxhkd as well and summons other programs.
I am not entirely sure how I feel about this bundling of tasks into one application, but so far it works. Since river is also, mimicking bspwm, using an executable file (any executable file) as its configuration file it is also reasonable that the setup can be tamed and refactored better than a single i3 configuration file.
Waybar
Waybar replaces the old polybar setup.
It displays the first 10 tags on its left, with tags highlighted that are either occupied by windows or currently in focus. In the center it displays a clock which can be clicked to open a simple calendar.
To the right is where most of the info modules are: If there are upcoming events listed for the khal application, it will display a calendar module here. If music is playing through an mpris-compatible player, its status is shown here. If a connection through wireguard or over a vpn tunnel is established, it is shown here. Then, from left to right, audio, brightness, wifi, cpu, ram, temperature, and battery information are displayed.
Some displays have alternative display states, with for example the battery showing remaining time and ram information showing used and total available.
Clicking on:
- audio opens pulsemixer
- network opens nmtui
- cpu opens top (or glances on right-click)
- temperature shows sensors
keyd
keyd is set up within /etc/ and not in the dotfiles themselves.
If using the included ./install.sh file, there is an option to also set up files outside the home directory, including keyd options.
It is configured through /etc/keyd/default.cfg.
Currently, it takes care of mapping capslock to both control and escape (depending on if its used alone or with other keys),
as well as adding some German characters that I am otherwise missing on my en_US keyboard.
Lastly, it allows easy clipboard pasting with the insert key.
Swaybg
swaybg is used to set the wallpaper from the river configuration file.