nwg-panel

This application is a part of the nwg-shell project.

Nwg-panel is a GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors. The panel is equipped with a graphical configuration program that frees the user from the need to manually edit configuration files.

Currently, we have a dozen of modules, and we don't plan on many more. Many minor tasks that users request a module for, may be easily done with executors.

• Controls module: basis system controls like brightness slider, volume slider (w/ per-app sliders), battery level w/ low level notification, system processes viewer, user-defined custom items, user-defined drop-down menu (which is the power menu by default);
• Brightness slider: a separate brightness slider for use per monitor; features backlight via ddcutil;
• Clock: system clock w/ a calendar popup built in;
• Custom button: a user-defined graphical/textual button you could bind an action to. By default, we use one as the application launcher button;
• DWL tags: deprecated and no longer supported; will be deleted in the future;
• Executor: a useful module that executes user-provided code and displays the output in the panel as an icon and text; see Wiki for more info;
• Sway taskbar & Hyprland taskbar: highly customizable modules to display a label with an icon for every running window, together with some more info (workspace number, split orientation on sway, X-widows marker); right click opens a menu that allows to move windows between workspaces, toggle floating and fullscreen, and also close windows;
• Sway & Hyprland workspaces: display labels to navigate between workspaces with a marker for non-empty ones; next to the labels there's a field with currently focused window details;
• Menu Start: module provides integration of the XGD-style nwg-menu;
• Openweather: displays weather forcast from OpenWeatherMap and weather alerts from weatherbit.io for given locations;
• Playerctl: displays an icon and a label of the currently played tune, together with back / play-pause / forward buttons;
• RandomWallpaper: provides you with random wallpapers from either a local folder, or the wallhaven.cc service. You can refresh them on startup, on demand or in a given time interval. You can also see the remote image info, and save the image to a local folder of your choice.
• Scratchpad: displays info on current scratchpad content and allows to open scratchpad windows;
• SwayMode: a simple indicator of a sway bindings mode other than "default";
• HyprlandSubmap: a simple indicator of a Hyprland bindings submap other than "default";
• Tray: SNI system tray module;
• KeyboardLayout: keyboard layout switcher, between values defined as xkb_layout (sway) or kb_layout (Hyprland). Use commas to separate values, e.g. pl,us,de.

Installation

If nwg-panel has not yet been packaged for your Linux distribution, you may install it by cloning this repository and running the install.sh script.

See Wiki for more information. You'll also find some useful executor examples there.