Widget for waybar

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Widget for waybar

timsofteng opened this issue 3 years ago · comments

Hello. I have idea about wf-recorder widget in waybar.
Is it possible to implement stopwatch with rec icon for waybar when wf-recorder start to work? And disable it when it finish.

Ilia Bozhinov · Answer 1 · Wed Jan 12 2022 18:57:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

That would be something to implement in waybar , not wf-recorder, open an issue there. Should be easily doable, on click waybar starts wf-recorder, on stop it sends SIGINT to wf-recorder.

Yuri Schaeffer · Answer 2 · Wed Jan 12 2022 19:08:06 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have this. Plus some CSS to make it look nice.

"custom/recording": { "format": "[{}]", "exec": "pidof wf-recorder > /dev/null && echo 'REC'", "interval": 10, },

Tim · Answer 3 · Thu Jan 13 2022 00:25:07 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have this. Plus some CSS to make it look nice.

"custom/recording": { "format": "[{}]", "exec": "pidof wf-recorder > /dev/null && echo 'REC'", "interval": 10, },

Thanks. It works but I don't really like the idea to update it every some amount of time.
Is it only one way to do it to trigger pidof every time?

Yuri Schaeffer · Answer 4 · Thu Jan 13 2022 01:57:54 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Is it only one way to do it to trigger pidof every time?

No, you can instead write a script that will loop and write a line on every change. Or use signal option of waybar. Than either wrap your call to wf-recorder to something that writes a pidfile for which you can `inotify-wait` or sends a signal directly to waybar with `kill`. (tip: use trap in your shell script)