hyprland_workspace_indicator

What is it?

A multi-monitor workspace indicator JSON output for use with EWW and Hyprland. It is super lightweight and written in C. It supports up to 10 workspaces [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0].

The key feature is the ability to see individual workspaces on each monitor respectively, reducing clutter and increasing readability. For example, you might see one numbered workspace (4) on one monitor, and 3 other numbered workspaces (7,8, and 9) on another monitor.

What do you need to know?

The program will not work with any wayland compositors that aren't Hyprland. The program produces a JSON output for each monitor like this:

[
  {
    "activeworkspaces": [
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false
    ],
    "workspaces": [
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      false,
      true,
      true,
      false,
      true,
      false
    ]
  }
]

How to build and install (eww)

Build requirements:

• cJSON
• Make

1. Run make
2. Edit the workspaces_script in bin/ to the path of the binary (which is produced in the bin/ directory by default).
3. Set a deflisten variable in eww with the workspaces_script as the input.
4. Create a defwidget that uses that variable for :reveal or :visible as seen by the example code in example/.
5. Implement the widget in a defwindow, like your eww bar for example.

!!! WARNING !!!

This is alpha-quality software. Proper error handling still needs to be implemented.

If you have trouble with this program, do not hesitate to report it in the issues section.

Credits

I would like to thank the developers of these wonderful projects:

• https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON
• https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland
• https://github.com/elkowar/eww