Hi lemmings, I trying to do a port of my current rice to eww to reduce dependencies, got my status bar done as well as the powermenu the only thing left was notifications that I din’t even implement in my current setup, what’s the notification deamon you are using and how do you integrate it with other apps in my case would be just opening a window.
Do you know of any good guide/tutorial on how to use eww? I tried with the official documentation but I couldn’t understand it
Yeah the documentation is quite lacking, some examples would be useful, but if you go to their repo along side the examples they list there a tutorial to make a power menu that does a good introduction.
Some tips I found along the way
To be fair I don’t blame them, idk why there is not such example in the wiki to begin with.
The workspaces are a bit hard to do, but you can just copy someone implementation or if you are using hyprland they provide it in the
Define colours on a separe scss file to change themes on the fly if you want so.
For Variables that you update manually like volume and brightness do a polling function (checking every x sec), just go to the shortcut you defined previously ( assuming you are using a wm ) and along side the command to change the volume/brightness run
eww update x=$(command to get current value)I’m going to browse the webarchive later and try to find some dotfiles and try to use them as reference, last time it didn’t go so well and eww kept crashing. I remeber finding some that were beautiful