[window-list] Can't set colors

[wayfirewm]

[window-list] Can't set colors

[soreau]

The colors are ultimately controlled by the gtk theme.

[nwg-piotr]

Well, changing themes does not affect neither the panel nor the dock on my machine. :(

[soreau]

Changing the theme may be different depending on your distro. Here, I have to set e.g. GTK_THEME=Greybird:dark

[nwg-piotr]

This works for me in all windows, but not in the panel nor dock.

[nwg-piotr]

Wait! You meant an environment variable?

[nwg-piotr]

It works. However, it would be great if wf-shell accepted the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini content.

[ammen99]

I do not think we can do much. Wf-panel never overrides colors except for the background optuon, if it is set (i.e we use gtk defaults, not sure why it picks the wrong theme)

[nwg-piotr]

Well, I just wanted the panel to show me window-list, but I can live without it. As I'm addicted to having a lot of info in my panels, for now I'll stick to waybar.

[ammen99]

@nwg-piotr If you use waybar, it also has a window-list-like module which works on Wayfire. I do not remember how it is called, something with wlr/ It is called wlr/taskbar.

[nwg-piotr]

Brilliant, thank you! On sway I use sway/workspaces and a script to rename them after the last focused window name.

The wlr/taskbar module works excellent on Wayfire, apart from a minor issue w/ the minimize action.

By the way: do we have any equivalent to the sway reload command on Wayfire?

[soreau]

Can you say what you expect sway reload to do? All changes to wayfire.ini should be applied upon saving the file, except a few cases such as vwidth/vheight options, which require wayfire restart.

[nwg-piotr]

Actually I only need to restart waybar. For some reason I can't kill it and start again on the fly.

[soreau]

What happens when you try?

[nwg-piotr]

If I execute a script like this from terminal, it works:

pkill -f waybar
exec waybar

The same called from a key binding:

binding_rwaybar = <super> <shift> KEY_C
command_rwaybar = /home/piotr/.local/bin/restart_waybar.sh

kills waybar, but does not start it again.

[soreau]

the commands are run with sh, try without exec maybe?

[nwg-piotr]

Still the same effect.

[soreau]

Are you sure /home/piotr/.local/bin/restart_waybar.sh is executable? The other thing it might be is that you need a sleep 0.5 or so in between killing and starting waybar.

[nwg-piotr]

It is, as it kills waybar. I tried adding sleep with no effect. :/

[nwg-piotr]

And [piotr@msi ~]$ /home/piotr/.local/bin/restart_waybar.sh from terminal works as expected.

[soreau]

Well it's calling /bin/sh -c /home/piotr/.local/bin/restart_waybar.sh internally.
Here's a couple more things to try:

• Pipe the output of waybar to file and see if it outputs anything when it doesn't start
• Print the environment in the script called by wayfire and compare it with the environment in your terminal

[nwg-piotr]

After the pkill -f waybar line nothing else is executed, if I run the script from the key binding.

echo "Hello" > waybar.txt
pkill -f waybar
echo " there!" >> waybar.txt
waybar -c /home/piotr/.config/waybar/config-wayfire >> waybar.txt

only saves "hello" to the waybar.txt file.

[nwg-piotr]

killall -9 waybar seems to work as it should. 😁