EWW profile widget and other widgets problem(solved)

[Zapelmon]

Hello, it's me again, the person who couldn't set up and configure your script last time. Since then, I've installed the script several times, but I've been trying hyprland all this time. However, for a long time now, my choice has fallen on bspwm and your script. Overall, I figured out how to install it without any errors, but I still have some questions; however, some of them are more related to xorg than to bspwm.

The first question I'd like to ask: -How do I remove tearing on the screen? The UFO test and visually I see terrible image tearing, and creating a config in picom doesn't work. I'm not asking you to figure it out; it's just that I can't find a working method. Even creating a config in x11 for an Intel graphics card doesn't help, or I am doing it wrong.

The second question I'd like to ask: -How do I change the avatar in menu that shows when I click on the "user" icon?

The third question I'd like to ask: -How do I remove "Images" when launching the terminal? I respect the creativity of those who made them, but they interfere a bit and slow down work.

And the fourth question: -I want to create my own theme; however, I want to modify one theme that I like the most (change text, color scheme), make backups of it, and remove other themes from the selection list. This also applies to desktop photos. I read the wiki and will figure it out for sure; however, I'm particularly interested in this point. I'm also curious how to change the language of the text displayed in the bar (Ram, NET, VOL, date etc.) to my preferred language. I'll be grateful for any guidance! If these issues have already been addressed in other inquiries and I haven't found them, please send those to me for reading instead of writing everything anew and wasting your time. ^-^

[gh0stzk]

Hello!!

1. What graphics you have? amd? intel? other? in x11 to get rid of tearing you must create a file in /etc/X!!/xorg.conf.d/ with the name 20-intel.conf or 20-amd.conf

20-intel.conf :

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "Intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod"   "sna"
    Option      "DRI"       "3"
    Option      "TearFree"  "true"
    Option      "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

20-amd.conf :

Section "OutputClass"
     Identifier "AMD"
     MatchDriver "amdgpu"
     Driver "amdgpu"
    Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

Reboot and your are done.

2. The image is located in ~/.config/bspwm/assets/profile.png just overwritte the profile.png with your image, try to the new image have the same or similar size, the size is 260x260

3. To remove the ascii art from the terminal you only need to delete the last line in ~/.zshrc $HOME/.local/bin/colorscript -r

4. To modify or create your own theme, basically edit the Theme.sh inside every rice, and edit the color variables at the beggining of the file, bg, fg, black, blackb, red, redb etc.. you only need to edit that, for the colors in terminals, rofi, eww. And to change the image of rofi launcher, just create your own one with the name rofi.webp inside rice dir.

To change the bar text, just open the modules.ini, and edit the modules.

[Zapelmon]

Thank you! I tried removing tearing, but in ehat i founded there was no Option "AccelMethod" "sna" Option "DRI" "3" That helped! Regarding themes, I practically understood everything. The only thing left is to understand how to back up and remove other themes except the one I create, since I am not a fan of changing themes that often. Closing the "issue" so it doesn't stay open, but if you see this and add information on how to change the displayed themes in the theme selector and wallpaper selector, I would be very grateful! Looking forward to any advice, as I have little knowledge about bspwm and your config, but I really liked everything. ^-^ And I would also like to know how to add support for Japanese and other logographic languages to the bspwm, as I am studying them.

[Zapelmon]

Unfortunately, I have to reopen the ticket. Something goes wrong at the stage of changing the picture. It happened on the system where I initially opened the ticket and on the current reinstalled one as well. In short, I change the profile picture to an image that I exported from GIMP, resized to 260x260 as instructed. After that, strange things happen with the profile menu. Sometimes it works correctly, but most often it doesn't. Even though I haven't set up the weather, it sometimes appears and then disappears completely. The same goes for my name and host name — they appear and disappear randomly. After changing the image, the backlighting of keys (WiFi, Bluetooth, airplane mode, night mode, etc.) breaks completely, although they still function correctly. It looks something like this: This might be caused by the fact that I am installing a different driver than the one that comes with the system installation, as without it, tearoff doesn't work:

sudo pacman -Syu
sudo pacman -S xf86-video-intel
sudo mkdir -p /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf

Where I insert:

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Intel Graphics"
 Driver "intel"
 Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

And yes, sometimes monitoring the CPU and RAM states works, sometimes it doesn't. As far as I understand, it's a matter of chance.

[Zapelmon]

Changing intel config to

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
    Driver      "Intel"
    Option      "AccelMethod"   "sna"
    Option      "DRI"       "3"
    Option      "TearFree"  "true"
    Option      "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

don't do anything

[Zapelmon]

I think I should also clarify something else. It could very well be an incompatibility between the graphics card driver and the graphics card itself: Just in case it might be caused by the graphics card driver or something like that.

And yes, after some (usually long) period of time, the display of the user host, packages, etc., returns. But nothing more. Icons do not turn blue (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.) when clicked, and it bugs out simply when reloading the shell (may not appear until the system is rebooted). Sometimes it gets fixed, but rarely, and the cause is unknown. Sometimes changing the theme can fix it; sometimes just clicking on the user icon a loooooooooooot of times works. It’s not completely broken; it's just unclear why it might be broken most of the time. If you don’t know what could be causing the problem or think it's hardware-related, let me know and I’ll close the request.

[gh0stzk]

1. check if scripts have execution permission in ~/.config/bspwm/eww/profilecard/scripts/ all of them.
2. try changing the picom backend, open ~/.config/bspwm/picom.conf and in backend option, change glx to xrender. kill picom pkill picom and reload bspwm super + alt + r check if that fix the issue.

About your graphics yes maybe related, if graphics doesnt work well, picom could be inestable. you have an 6th generation card, sandy bridge, i dont remember but you dont need xfs86-video-intel, check the arch and gentoo wiki, gentoo wiki have a generation table, did you install the hardware acceleration packeges?

[gh0stzk]

and check in logs dir, ~/.cache/eww there are logs for eww.

[Zapelmon]

So, I double-checked if hardware acceleration is enabled and made sure that video and input are in the user groups. I followed all the suggested actions, and changing the backend led to a slightly lower RAM consumption (to my surprise), which made me happy. However, the problem remains. In the eww logs, there are only 3 files, and when viewed through nano, they are all empty.

What I can say based on the outcome: I would like to ask you to think of something based on the current picture. Namely, the panel behavior is absolutely random. And it's different every time after pressing super+alt+r. Sometimes the menu appears immediately upon pressing and either works correctly or not; sometimes it opens after multiple presses (since without spamming it doesn't open even if pressed many times with long intervals) in a faulty state; and sometimes it opens after spamming in a fully functional state. Sometimes when it opens in a faulty state, after some time (around 5 minutes), there's a kind of lottery, and it might fix itself and work as expected. In case this might be a hardware issue, is there any way to further reduce the shell's consumption? I'm willing to sacrifice smoothness for stability and possibly degrade visuals and "squarize" windows and bars. I can also give up transparency if that could help. Once again, I apologize for reaching out with minimal knowledge about bspwm and Arch Linux in general. I will also try to find a solution myself but kindly ask you to review this case once more and possibly request specific logs or videos showing how this menu behaves.

[Zapelmon]

btw, killing picom don't solving this, even when picom is gone, menu is still having a bad times

[Zapelmon]

A little update. It seems that if I wait for a sufficient amount of time (more than a minute), the frequency of successful menu activations increases significantly(From 5% to around 10-15%). However, when entering the browser and other applications, it often breaks down. The worst case is trying to launch with the browser already running. I'm not sure if the weather module is related, but the key I inserted doesn't work, although it slightly increases the chances of a successful launch. Also, when the weather icon appears in the bar near the time, it means that there's a very high probability that the menu will work correctly upon startup. Also, if starting with the first press is impossible, it causes other symptoms: alt+space becomes paralyzed(not always, like 1 in 50 times), even super+esc cannot revive it. No other issues have been detected by me during this time.

[0xN1nja]

@Zapelmon did you try setting vsync = true in picom.conf?

[Zapelmon]

@Zapelmon did you try setting vsync = true in picom.conf?

I installed it; on average, it increases the number of partially successful launches. That is, most of the information is displayed, but the CPU loading icons remain static and wifi and etc too (it seems to me that the degree of completely fatal launches has decreased) It is dependent on the music widget, and if most of the information is displayed but the icons are static, theme switching stops working(even after super+esc). If the launch was completely fatal (almost nothing is displayed), the ability to change themes and the image in the music widget remain functional. The "shutdown" widget, etc., correctly displays uptime, whereas in the profile widget, everything stays at the values from the first launch. (Restarting bspwm doesn't always work; maybe it's an issue with eww?)

[Zapelmon]

And, when everything launches fine, other widgets and etc. wokring fine too... I just can't understand why is it sometimes bugging so bad, but sometimes working fine.

[gh0stzk]

Try compiling eww from source, maybe that will fix, the eww in my dots its a pre compiled binary. remove the the actual one in /usr/bin/ sudo rm /usr/bin/eww

git clone https://github.com/elkowar/eww

cd eww

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features x11

once it finished

cd target/release

chmod +x eww

sudo install -Dm755 eww /usr/bin/eww

[Zapelmon]

As I see it, this has led to success! Even when everything launched successfully last time, nothing was displayed in the themes where the weather was supposed to be shown next to the time. Now, no matter how many times I reload bspwm, everything seems fine. At least, that’s my observation after testing for a short period of time.

I will close the issue for now, make a backup of the system, and start customizing the theme. Thank you very much for your help. By the way, enabling vertical synchronization through picom has a better effect than enabling it in xorg.

I also have some suggestions regarding the installation process. For some reason (at least for me), your Linux installation script couldn't be downloaded even through a VPN, and the short link for the installation script was not working either.

Additionally, I noticed that at the stage chmod +x RiceInstaller the installation script doesn't always turn green in this directory. As my experience showed (and I reinstalled both the system and your script many times), if you take what seems like an extra step and enter chmod +x /home/"username"/RiceInstaller it always turns green, and there are no problems at the stage after backing up files (at least in my method of system installation; this also works if installing through archinstall).

The issue with widgets appeared both in the installation script and in fully manual installations.

I will rename this issue so that people can find it and solve their problem as well and then close it because there are absolutely no problems at this moment ^-^