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IDK how to set the udev rule to give myself permission to write the brightness file in NixOS, while brightnessctl can still work.

Hello, I'm currently working on packaging this project for Void Linux, but it's a requirement to use a version tag.

Thanks for all your work.

Being able to individually control the volume of specific audio inputs and outputs would be great, I have a couple of audio devices and would love to have a nice OSD when adjusting volumes rather than silent keybound scripts in the background or opening up pavucontrol each time.

if i do exec swayosd-server um it works but on killing the op, it exits the term too idk why

Any chance this is available through Ubuntu / APT? I'm locked to this distro for a work laptop.

I, for one, am less fond of messing with groups and udev rules to change brightness when I already have other utilities that can do that without such intrusions (e.g. brightnessctl). I would appreciate a design that relies less on lower-level APIs and/or just having options similar to the ones for caps lock on the 'continuous' inputs as well (rather than the hack of setting to +0), so I can compose my preferred control methods appropriately.

Hello,

Before I begin, I want to say great work on SwayOSD. I found this project a few days ago, and it is a nice addition to my Sway setup.

I want suggest adding this software's custom value usage to the README.

Currently, the README shows examples such as:

 bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec swayosd --brightness raise
 bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec swayosd --output-volume raise

I know that passing in '--help' tells how to use the custom amounts for the change of brightness and volume. However, there is an example of using max volume with a value within the README:

exec swayosd --max-volume 120

So I think there should be examples of using custom values for all the brightness and volume within the README. I am willing to do a pr adding to the README file. Before I begin, I am wondering if I should have a sub-section for the Sway examples with something like:

# Brightness raise custom value
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp + <key> exec swayosd --brightness 10
# Brightness lower custom value
bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown + <key> exec swayosd --brightness -10
# Volume raise custom value
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume + <key> exec swayosd --output-volume 10
# Volume raise custom value
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume + <key> exec swayosd --output-volume -10

Or should it be somewhere else?

It would be super nice to have the GTK window only spawn on only a certain monitor via a commandline argument or some other config. On dual monitor setups it feels a bit off to have it duplicated.

Hi, thank you for the awesome project! I like the aesthetics a lot more than avízo, which I was using until now and wanted to make a switch, however it seems, that when I start and enable the swayosd-libinput-backend.service, the backend is running at 100% of one core.

I don't have any logs for you since it doesn't output anything. If there's a way, how to collect them to be more helpful, please, let me know.

I'm running on Arch, however not using AUR package, which is currently outdated, but a custom one, which uses meson and therefore installs everything (udev, polkit rules, service files, etc.)

Thank you!

Hi, I just intalled it with Hyprland, but I noticed that after binding it to the caps lock key, the message is always "Caps Lock On".

My binding in the hyprland,conf

bind = , Caps_Lock, exec, swayosd --caps-lock

Maybe we need a toggle parameter for it?

Good job btw, I'm setting it as a needed package for my custom iso :)

I want to change it equal 2

Discussed in #22

Having a more stripped down functionality (maybe optionally) could be of interest to other users.
Many Arch users already have wrappers to drive their peripherals, at which point a tool like wob comes in handy, with a more Unix-y approach so to say, by just accepting a number to show the current level.
I like the optics of SwayOSD, but would like the extensibility of wob. I don't know how the icons are queried currently but the script can accept a flag to select from a predefined set of icons, or even can accept a icon name from installed icons, just like notify-send from libnotify.

Hi 👋
Would you mind to make a copr for this project? I'm already using your other one for SwayNotificationCenter which is very useful (they could even be under the same one I think).

Thanks for all your work 🙂

Hi, I am using external monitors and was wondering if swayosd --brightness could control all devices in /sys/class/backlight?

Thanks a lot!

Support system icon theme settings.
Also, allow discrimination between enabled/disabled state

• ask upstream (1, 2) for scroll lock support / drop scroll lock support on our side
• use icons glyphs from upstream (1)
• switch to Adwaita's icon name for audio / microphone
• add option to discard gresource from binary / loading from external location (required for distribution packaging)
• fix error on cargo package

Hello! I was trying to use swayOSD on my machine, but couldnt get it to work. I have started the libinput backend via systemd, but when I run swayosd-server, it says that it is connecting to the swayosd libinput backend, but it never seems to connect. It just hangs and does nothing.

I am running Hyprland, so maybe that has something to do with it? I found this project in this list awesome-hyprland

I installed with the AUR package swayosd-git.

systemctl status swayosd-libinput-backend.service gives the following message multiple times that seems to be unrelated:

jan 15 17:24:59 laptop swayosd-libinput-backend[8257]: See https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.24.0/touchpad-jumping-cursors.html for details
jan 15 17:24:59 laptop swayosd-libinput-backend[8257]: libinput error: event4  - MSFT0001:00 04F3:31BD Touchpad: kernel bug: Touch jump detected and discarded. 

Thanks for the help!

(Edit for spelling)

Maybe limit max volume to 100% or 150% (and add config option)?

Just letting a note to notify that I added a package to the ArchLinux User Repository https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/swayosd-git

Hi, it would be a great improvement, if swayosd-libinput-backend could also listen to keyboard backlight and show an OSD window.

Thank you for the great project!

I switch to light theme using

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Adwaita"
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface color-scheme "prefer-light"

Then the OSD bar changes to dark, but the background doesn't change to light, making it unreadable:

Currently your option for volume and microphone muting is simply toggle mute.

I would like to request 'mute' and 'unmute' variants as I use them for different key combinations

Hi,

Great work on SwayOSD!

Both pactl and brightnessctl offer the possibility to change volume and brightness by a percentage, which is supposed to be closer to how humans perceive changes.

Would you consider making this possible with SwayOSD also? It would also help with compatibility I guess.

I have caps lock bound to keyboard layout change, and every time i press it the "caps lock off" notification shows up. Is there already an undocumented option to do that, and if there isn't, can it be implemented?

Hi, thanks you for the work on this, it's been extremly usefull!

While it works, when you start swayosd while having both outputs connected/active, the moment you disable and re-enable an output, it breaks the swayosd layout and it starts appearing all over the screen.

Right after starting swayosd with both outputs active:

After disabling/re-enabling one output:

I add a .rules file to /etc/udev/rules.d/:

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="acpi_video0", RUN+="/bin/chgrp video /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="backlight", KERNEL=="acpi_video0", RUN+="/bin/chmod g+w /sys/class/backlight/%k/brightness"

and run the command sudo usermod -a -G video $USER
but it didn't work as I expected.

Separate the swayosd executable to client & server executables. This would make it easier for new users to configure.

Would cause minor breakage though...

Extend caps lock like feature also for num lock. Especially useful when the numlock doesn't have a visual indicator like on laptops

Thanks for your work. gtk4-layershell is already available. No idea how much effort a port from GTK3 to 4 is in this scope, but that would be nice to have imo. I might look into this.

Not sure if it's possible using libinput backend, but if it isn't, please add custom message support, so you could do swayosd --custom $(compositor specific command to get current keyboard layout)

When trying to run the server with swayosd-server --max-volume=150 or wayosd-server --max-volume 150 I get that --max-volume is not a CLI option

Am I doing something wrong here?

Hi
I'm on gentoo linux ~amd64
with geforce gtx 3060
latest nvidia drivers with drm and kernel-open
with wayland and hyprland 0.8.0
dbus version 1.15.8

i use latest version from git,
when i try to run wayosd-libinput-backend manually i get:

Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.80" is not allowed to own the service "org.erikreider.swayosd" due to security policies in the configuration file

i'm really not familiar with dbus so maybe my angel is completely wrong, but i tried to add the file /etc/dbus-1/session.d/swayosd.conf and to add to it <allow send_destination="org.erikreider.swayosd" /> but it didn't make any difference.

bindsym {
    --locked {
        XF86AudioMute exec swayosd-client --output-volume mute-toggle
        XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec swayosd-client --output-volume 1
        XF86AudioLowerVolume exec swayosd-client --output-volume -1
    }
}

OSD on lockscreen (swaylock)

PS: really nice project this is (:

Appreciate your script.
But after install it then add exec and binds it doesn't work.
Waiting your help...
Thx

Small question regarding this change, is there a way to disable trying to access the listener when using swayosd?
I don't have the listener running (I just want to use the keybindings in the config), but when I run any swayosd command it now hangs waiting for the listener

$ swayosd --brightness raise
SwayOSD LibInput Backend isn't available, waiting...

P.S. Brightness change works fine for me, can't reproduce the issue as described in #12

Originally posted by @simonvanderveldt in #23 (comment)

I use capslock:swapescape a lot

The osd activates when i hit escape (actual key: capslock)
and doesn't when i hit capslock (actual key: escape)

input "type:keyboard" xkb_options caps:swapescape

For example, brightnessctl: https://github.com/Hummer12007/brightnessctl/blob/ef49d475bedc447fd01998bdd53590cfdc36b96c/brightnessctl.c#L393

This works for me without setting udev rules.

starting the systemd service doesnt work nor starting the server please help thanks

Thank you for making this software. Maybe more actions/symbols such as brightness and mute control (maybe play/pause) would make it even better.

Hi, due to #![feature(if_let_guard)] line, the project cannot be built in release buildtype with an error error[E0554]: ``#![feature]`` may not be used on the stable release channel.

I stumbled upon this when trying to update the package through AUR. Yes, I agree it is more of an AUR issue, than swayosd issue, however I'd argue that expecting release channel to work should not be the responsibility of the packager, but of the maintainer.

Thank you for all the work!

If I am reading the documentation correctly, it seems like swayosd is supposed to be able to change the brightness of my display. However, when I run swayosd --brightness lower|raise doesn't make any effect. brillo -A 10 or brillo -U 10 both work fine, so it doesn't seem to be a permissions issue.

Additionally, no OSD is displayed whatsoever, but other OSD's displayed by swayosd work great (volume, caps lock)

Version: swayosd-git from AUR r18.8ef76c1-1
Compositor: Hyprland (wlroots)
OS: Fully updated Arch Linux as of May 2 11:56 PM MST

swayosd strace

brillo strace

Is there any config file to configure it's look? Or do I miss something?

potentially monitor rfkill event to show 'Airplane mode' OSD notices.

Hello!

just run swayosd-libinput-backend with the following error:

Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Connection ":1.50" is not allowed to own the service "org.erikreider.swayosd" due to security policies in the configuration file

How I can modify the policy to match the security policy?

Thanks in advance.

Since #60 we have the option to use swayosd-client --brightness <number>|raise|lower, and supposedly --brightness +n|-n, but the latter two are parsed as if the prefixes weren't there. This is inconsistent with both the behaviour of the other control elements and the documentation (swayosd --help).

Small feature request, would it be possible to show over-amplication (when running with --max-volume > 100 and going over that 100), similar to how for example GNOME does it?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/abIERSciMRc/maxresdefault.jpg

This is not my screenshot, also don't think this is how it currently looks in GNOME, but it shows the idea. I can make a screenshot later.

When I execute swayosd --input-volume mute-toggle to toggle my microphone, I get the regular "microphone volume" popup (volume at 100%), but instead of the microphone being toggled, the output volume gets muted. I'm using swayosd 5c2176a, installed from Arch AUR. Running swayosd --input-volume mute-toggle again does nothing (so it does not unmute the output volume)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Make sure input and output volume are unmuted (e.g. via pavucontrol)
2. Execute swayosd --input-volume mute-toggle
3. Observe 'mic 100%' popup
4. Observe output volume is muted

When I run a SwayOSD command that finishes with the input unmuted and on full volume it appears there is a missing icon image used rather than the icon used for volumes just below full:

I get the following error when building: ../data/meson.build:47:43: ERROR: Unknown variable "libdir".

libdir definition is missing in data/meson.build