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# gBar
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My personal blazingly fast and efficient status bar + widgets, in case anyone finds a use for it.
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## Prerequisites
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*If you don't have the optional dependencies, some features are not available and you must manually disable them.*
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- wayland
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- Hyprland(Optional -> For workspaces widget)
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- nvidia-utils(Optional -> For GPU status)
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- bluez(Optional -> For Bluetooth status)
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- GTK 3.0
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- gtk-layer-shell
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- PulseAudio server (PipeWire works too!)
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- meson, gcc/clang, ninja
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## Building and installation
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1. Configure with meson
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*All optional dependencies enabled*
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```
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meson build --buildtype=release
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```
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*All optional dependencies are disabled*
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```
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meson build --buildtype=release -DHasHyprland=false -DHasNvidia=false -DHasBlueZ=false
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```
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4. Build and install
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```
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ninja -C build && sudo ninja -C build install
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```
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5. Copy css styling into your config directory($XDG_CONFIG_HOME). This will most likely be ~/.config
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```
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mkdir ~/.config/gBar && cp css/* ~/.config/gBar/
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```
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## Running gBar
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*Open bar on monitor 0*
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```
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gBar bar 0
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```
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*Open audio flyin (either on current monitor or on the specified monitor)*
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```
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gBar audio [monitor]
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```
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## Gallery
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*Bar with default css*
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*Audio widget with default css*
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## Features / Widgets
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Bar:
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- Workspaces (Hyprland only)
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- Time
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- Bluetooth (BlueZ only)
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- Audio control
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- Power control
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- Shutdown
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- Restart
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- Suspend
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- Lock (Requires manual setup, see FAQ)
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- Exit/Logout (Hyprland only)
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- CPU stats: Utilisation, temperature (Temperature requires manual setup, see FAQ)
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- RAM: Utilisation
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- GPU stats (Nvidia only): Utilisation, temperature, VRAM
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- Disk: Free/Total
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Audio Flyin:
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- Audio control
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## FAQ
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### There are already many GTK bars out there, why not use them?
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- Waybar:
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Great performance, though limited styling(Almost no dynamic sliders, revealers, ...) and (at least for me) buggy css.
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- eww:
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Really solid project with many great customization options. There is one problem though: Performance
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Due to the way eww configuration is set up, for each dynamic variable (the number of them quickly grows) you need a shell command which opens a process.
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This became quickly a bottleneck, where the bar took up 10% of the CPU-time due to the creation of many processes all the time (without even considering the workspace widget).
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gBar implements all of the information gathering(CPU, RAM, GPU, Disk, ...) in native C++ code, which is WAY faster. In fact, gBar was meant to be a fast replacement/alternative for eww for me.
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And lastly: Implementing it myself is fun and a great excuse to learn something new!
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### What scheme are you using?
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The colors are from the Dracula theme: https://draculatheme.com
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### I want to customize the colors
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If you have SASS installed: Edit ~/.config/gBar/style.scss and regenerate style.css with it
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Else: Edit ~/.config/gBar/style.css directly!
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### I want to modify the widgets behaviour/Add my own widgets
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Unfortunately, you need to implement it yourself in C++. For inspiration look into src/Bar.cpp or src/AudioFlyin.cpp, or open an issue(Maybe I'll implement it for you).
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### The Audio widget doesn't open
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Delete /tmp/gBar__audio.
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This happens, when you kill the widget before it closes automatically after a few seconds.
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### CPU Temperature is wrong/Lock doesn't work
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*This is caused by the way my system and/or Linux is setup.*
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Temperature: Edit the variable ```tempFilePath``` in ```src/System.cpp``` to the correct thermal zone file and recompile. The one for my system is *very* likely wrong.
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Lock: There is no generic way to lock a system. So please, implement it to suit your needs (Replace XXX by a shell command in ```src/System.cpp```)
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### The icons are not showing!
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Please install a Nerd Font from https://www.nerdfonts.com (I use Caskaydia Cove NF), and change style.css/style.scss accordingly (Refer to 'I want to customize the colors' for that)
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