Waybar limitations

[Balssh]

With Hyprland scaling at 1, waybar is way too small for my screen. Problem is that if I try to increase the text size in config.ctl some widgets get hidden. This can't really be "fixed" as it highly depends on one's monitor (and eyes), but I have some suggestions about the widgets themselves:

• network and bluetooth seem redundant given they are also in the tray menu
• wallpaper, switch mode, switch menubar don't seem too useful (maybe it's just me, but I always use the keyboard for changing those) and I think we can safely remove them from the bar (in compensation maybe we can modify the installation script to print these (and other useful shortcuts) after everything was installed.
• on the long run maybe use something like AGS/Eww to create the bar. I've started https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots/discussions/480 and will try to come up with a POC sometime in the near future.

[prasanthrangan]

Hi, I kept the modules in ~/.config/waybar/config.ctl just to show the possibilities of waybar dynamic config... so you can remove and add the modules that you need easily and switch between them!

• on the long run maybe use something like AGS/Eww to create the bar. I've started About Eww widgets #480 and will try to come up with a POC sometime in the near future.

Yes the plan is to integrate Eww and toggle between eww mode and classic mode on the fly... Also pardon my ignorance, what is AGS? is it a toolkit?

[prasanthrangan]

I'll close this, just saw the discussion #480 to continue this thread!