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 & Niri 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;
• Pinned: displays buttons corresponding to pinned items from nwg-drawer/nwg-menu

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.

Known issues:

If kded6 is running (e.g., started by launching Dolphin), it may register org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher and prevent nwg-panel from owning the system tray. You can stop it using:

pkill kded6

See: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-panel/issues/396

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