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| author | Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz> | 2026-09-15 16:53:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Danilo M. <danix@danix.xyz> | 2026-09-15 16:53:34 +0200 |
| commit | 9adfac969af75a09054f1eb6f1894ab6bdf8b2a5 (patch) | |
| tree | da6bb4b96f8a5a279cf42865eee8dfeb7f36eb0e /modules/custom/presentation.jsonc | |
| parent | 66a8d05e2461761b60e1b4126437d04dc4f3dbbe (diff) | |
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feat: split the bar in two on DP-3
DP-3 is rotated, so a bar there is 1080px wide rather than 1920, and one bar
holding every module was too crowded. Status sits on top now, the desktop
itself along the bottom: workspaces on the left, open windows on the right.
Both bars are one waybar process reading one stylesheet, because waybar takes
a top-level array of bars, so the two cannot drift apart.
Presentation mode is the statusctl-backed module the DP-1 bar already runs,
rather than the wb-idle module written for this bar. It talks to files under
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR instead of to quickshell, so it keeps working while the shell
is down, and it already emits a state class, so the glyphs are simply dropped
and the icon chosen in CSS. wb-idle and its module are gone.
The module needs a format of one space. It defaults to "{text}", statusctl
emits an empty text, and waybar draws no widget at all for a custom module
whose formatted output is empty: not an empty pill, no pill. That is the same
trap the launcher hit, and it cost a wrong diagnosis on the way: a min-height
was added first on the theory that the pill was collapsing, which was treating
a symptom of a widget that did not exist. A forced red background proved it
was never drawn at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'modules/custom/presentation.jsonc')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc b/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3843cb5 --- /dev/null +++ b/modules/custom/presentation.jsonc @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +// Presentation mode, the same module the DP-1 bar runs. +// +// `statusctl presentation watch` streams waybar JSON on every change: it +// already emits an empty text and a class of activated, deactivated or down, +// so the icon is chosen in CSS from that class and no format is needed here. +// Dropping format-icons is the whole difference from the DP-1 copy, which +// draws the same two states as Nerd Font glyphs. +// +// `down` means the state file is missing, which is not the same as off: the +// mode cannot be read at all. It gets its own icon rather than borrowing the +// off one, so a broken watcher does not read as a working bar. +// +// statusctl talks to files under XDG_RUNTIME_DIR rather than to quickshell, +// so this keeps working while the shell is down. +// The format is a single space, and it has to be something. It defaults to +// "{text}", statusctl emits an empty text, and waybar draws no widget at all +// for a custom module whose formatted output is empty: not an empty pill, no +// pill. A space gives the label real content to be allocated for, shows +// nothing itself, and leaves the icon to the CSS background. +{ + "custom/presentation": { + "exec": "$HOME/bin/statusctl presentation watch", + "return-type": "json", + "on-click": "$HOME/bin/statusctl presentation toggle", + "format": " ", + "tooltip": true + } +} |
