Feature request : to have an option to show wrapper in bottom or top layer.

infact having an option like waybar where you can send a custom signal to a module will be awesome. an id can be given to wraper window which can be used to toggle surface layer . It sounds a bit over the edge but will be an aweosme option to have

I use swaylock to display a random image while locked:

swaylock --daemonize --image "$IMAGE" &

Is there any way to have nwg-wrapper display some text 'on top of' that image. I tried --layer=2 but it does not display (until I unlock!).

it would be useful to add custom signals for script refresh so the script can be triggered by signals instead of constantly polling/refreshing. This is useful for things like album cover update on music player's track/status changes. By the way, do you guys think using real-time signal would be better? i.e. RTMIN+No. Think those status bars mostly use that for triggering update.

I want to able able to define a config for wrapper instance in .ini file, so that this (for example) very verbose string nwg-wrapper -s swaylock-time.sh -o eDP-1 -r 1000 -c timezones.css -p right -mr 50 -a start -mt 0 -j right -l 3 -sq 31 can become that nwg-wrapper ~/.config/nwg-wrapper/time.ini

with config file being in that format

[wrapper]
script=swaylock-time.sh
output=eDP-1
refresh=1000
css=timezones.css
position=right
margin_right=50
margin_top=0
justify=right
layer=3
sig_quit=31

I can implement that feature.

As the title says, script doesn't refresh when I signal 8 with pkill. But instead, if I run nwg-wrapper with --sig_refresh 7 flag, it does work if I signal 7. I have no idea why. Also, 7 is just random and 8 is the default of nwg_wrapper. Any help appreciated. Thanks.

The output names (like eDP-1) are unpredictable, and depend on the order in which you connect your external monitors. So the established way of binding programs and settings to outputs is to address the monitors by "Make model serial" (for example, Goldstar Company Ltd LG IPS FULLHD 604NTDV33634) which are unique. This is how Sway and Kanshi do it, for example.

Can you please add the support for this to nwg-wrapper? I'd like to be able to do nwg-wrapper -o 'Goldstar Company Ltd LG IPS FULLHD 604NTDV33634' and have the overlay drawn on the specified monitor.

https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/kanshi/tree/eddaeac2/item/main.c#L25

Here, you can find an example of how Kanshi implements the matching logic. (Maybe you could even borrow the code from there.)

Ivan

Currently, signalling nwg-wrapper with the configured layer signal will alternate its layer between layer 1 (bottom) and 2 (top) instead of between the provided --layer and 3 (overlay). This updates nwg-wrapper's behavior to match the documentation.

(Found this when pkill -10 nwg-wrapper; swaylock "$@"; pkill -10 nwg-wrapper didn't do what I expected.)

In some cases i want to be able to spawn a wrapper window instance that is visibly hidden and show it only when i want, i.e. on nwg-panel executor left click. This feature does just that, it adds a boolean flag, that when it passed, wrapper spawns visibly hidden.

added some script I used. on top of a few modifications I made. Included signal refresh patch. 6f95224102633fb708837771f5afa9b2798ff72e quit if output is offline: 19a734952524b7e43a8a0e665fecbe4e1f384e53 anchor issue: 2ec3082957cd966dd153ba9e65d2cb6d6f0c6b52 examples: ca8ea7163c6686ae327b97135f6ed53db85263d4

How can we make this happen? I upgraded python to 3.10 on my computer and NWG stopped working due to pygobject not being compiled to support python 3.9.

I wanna help. :D

I've found that if I 'sleep 0.5' after nwg-wrapper and before running swaylock/gtklock, it doesn't always display correctly. Increasing the sleep to 1 second fixes it. I daresay this depends on the CPU speed etc, but it might be a good idea to document it in the README

Hi.

I'd like to add some actions to a nwg-wrapper to use it as a real desktop widget. For example, open a web link when I clicks or to change workspace with mouse wheel via swaymsg, etc. Is it possible?

Thanks for the code!

An example, running the following script currently doesn't output anything.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
dbus-monitor --session "interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications',member='Notify',type='method_call'" | grep "method call"

It is almost ready to be full-on conky support, but one crutial pice is missing - graphs. And this "renderer" being so rightfully unixway I don't see a justification to implement something like custom protocol, no, but I also see that there is no way to render output of programs that already can draw them. Therefore I ask for sixel suppopt, that would make it a lot easier. And you can also render regular images with it.