ML4W-Hyprland

The status bar for the ML4W Dotfiles is Waybar. You can find the waybar configuration in ~/dotfiles/waybar.

Waybar Keybindings

Keybind	Action
`SUPER` + `CTRL` + `B`	Toggle Waybar
`SUPER` + `SHIFT` + `B`	Reload Waybar Theme
`SUPER` + `CTRL` + `T`	Switch Waybar Theme via themeswitcher
`SUPER` + `CTRL` + `T`	Open Rofi themeswitcher for Waybar

Waybar Themes and themeswitcher

Select a theme
Use `SUPER` + `CTRL` + `T` (custom Hyprland key binding) to execute the `themeswitcher.sh` script. The script opens Rofi to show themes in `~/.config/waybar/themes/`.

Define your Quicklinks

The waybar status bar includes a section for quicklinks.

The icon for ChatGPT and Settings are fixed. All the other icons can be customized or extended in ~/.config/ml4w/settings/waybar-quicklinks.json

In the JSON file you can define up to 10 Quicklinks and add them into the quicklinks group in Waybar: https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/blob/main/share/dotfiles/.config/ml4w/settings/waybar-quicklinks.json

/*
Define your quick links for the statusbar here.
YOu can use icons from here https://fontawesome.com/search?ic=free
You can reload waybar with SUPER + SHIFT + B
*/
{
    "custom/quicklink_browser": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "~/.config/ml4w/settings/browser.sh",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Browser"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_filemanager": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "~/.config/ml4w/settings/filemanager.sh",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Filemanager"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_email": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "~/.config/ml4w/settings/filemanager.sh",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Email Client"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_chromium": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "chromium",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Chromium"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_edge": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "edge",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Edge"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_firefox": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "firefox",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Firefox"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_thunderbird": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "thunderbird",
        "tooltip-format": "Open Thunderbird"
    },
    "custom/quicklink_calculator": {
        "format": "",
        "on-click": "~/.config/ml4w/settings/calculator.sh",
        "tooltip-format": "Open calculator"
    },
/*
Don't remove the quicklinkempty
*/
    "custom/quicklinkempty": {
    },
/*
Add your quicklinks in your desired order to the status bar
*/
    "group/quicklinks": {
        "orientation": "horizontal",
        "modules": [

            "custom/quicklink_browser",
            "custom/quicklink_email",
            "custom/quicklink_filemanager",

/*
Don't remove the quicklinkempty
*/
            "custom/quicklinkempty"
        ]
    }
}

This configuration includes already a prepared quicklink for Firefox incl. the correct icon. Just activate it by removing the /* */ and remove Chromium.

Reload after changes
After changing the file, reload Waybar with `SUPER` + `SHIFT` + `B`.

You can find free icons of font-awesome here: https://fontawesome.com/search?o=r&m=free

Define your own config and style.css for a ML4W theme

If you want to hide modules from the dotfiles ML4W themes or tweak the style, you can do this by creating a copy of the config file and name it config-custom or a copy of style.css and name it style-custom.css

The waybar loader will the use your copies instead of the default files.

With a personal config-custom you can also load a personal modules.json with additional modules.

Create your own theme based on the starter theme

Please check the configurations of the folders in ~/dotfiles/waybar/themes/

A good starting point is to copy the the waybar starter theme.

Copy the folder ~/.config/waybar/themes/starter and name the copy for example to mytheme.

Open the file ~/.config/waybar/themes/mytheme/config.sh and give your theme a name

#!/bin/bash
theme_name="MyTheme"

How to select new theme
Select your new theme by clicking the "..." icon in Waybar or using `SUPER` + `CTRL` + `T`.

To customize your theme, you can edit the files config, style.css and modules.json

Reload theme shortcut
You can reload the Waybar theme with `SUPER` + `SHIFT` + `B`.

Waybar documentation

Waybar configuration: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration Waybar Styling: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Styling

Waybar Keybindings ​

Waybar Themes and themeswitcher ​

Define your Quicklinks ​

Define your own config and style.css for a ML4W theme ​

Create your own theme based on the starter theme ​