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Eww (ElKowar's Wacky Widgets, pronounced with sufficient amounts of disgust) is a widgeting system made in rust, which let's you create your own widgets similarly to how you can in AwesomeWM. The key difference: It is independent of your window manager!
Configured in XML and themed using CSS, it is easy to customize and provides all the flexibility you need!
How to install Eww
Prerequisites
- rustc
- cargo (nightly toolchain)
Rather than with your system package manager, I recommend installing it using rustup, as this makes it easy to use the nightly toolchain necessary to build eww.
Building
Once you have the Prerequisites ready, you're ready to install and build eww.
First clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/elkowar/eww
then enter it.
cd eww
and then to build:
cargo build --release
Running eww
Once you've built it you can now run it by entering:
cd target/release
and then make the Eww binary executable
chmod +x ./eww
and then to run it do
./eww daemon
./eww open <window_name>
<window_name> is the name of the window, see The windows block.