I just got into hyprland. Installed some configs and just didn’t like them so I’m starting from scratch and building my own. I dabbled some with eww and it made me reconsider my will to live. Is it worth learning or is waybar good enough?

  • markkdark@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I played around with eww for a while but eventually opted for Waybar as it was easier for me to configure. Hyprland is the top WM manager.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Is it worth learning or is waybar good enough?

    If you’re just looking for a configurable and extendable desktop bar, then yes, Waybar is absolutely fine. If you want to have a fully-featured widgets system (that you can also use to build a desktop bar with it), then Eww is what you might want.

    I tried to look into Eww but gave up because Waybar is absolutely fine.

  • wintersummerlandEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I went through the same. Waybar is doing it for me now, I did not have the time to dive that deep into eww. Found a config for waybar from some guy who made a video for hyprland and has at least 3 versions of his configs in GitHub. Modified some stuff and I m good.

  • Serpentian@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    Waybar is great as a starting point but it lacks a lot of features: it mostly doesn’t support hover effects, it cannot oppen popup menus.

    Eww can do all of this, but this comes at a price of steep learning curve. AGS can do even more, but it even much more difficult, than Eww