Table of Contents

• About
• Configuration
  • Example Config
• Building
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage

About

Elkowar’s Wacky Widgets is a standalone Widget System made in rust to add AwesomeWM like widgets to any WM

Configuration

Eww’s configuration should be placed in ~/.config/eww/eww.xml and any scss styles you want to add should be put into ~/.config/eww/eww.scss.

Example Config

<eww>
  <definitions>
    <def name="test">
      <box orientation="v">
        {{foo}}
        <button onclick='notify-send "that hurt,..."'>
            click me if you dare :&lt;
          </button>
        <box>
          {{ree}}
          <slider min="0" max="100" value="50" onchange="notify-send {}"/>
        </box>
      </box>
    </def>
  </definitions>

  <variables>
    <var name="foo">test</var>
  </variables>


  <windows>
    <window name="main_window">
      <size x="100" y="200" />
      <pos x="100" y="200" />
      <widget>
        <test ree="test" />
      </widget>
    </window>
  </windows>
</eww>

Building

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, which is necessary to build eww.

Installation

Build the Binary using -:

$ git clone https://github.com/Elkowar/eww.git
$ cd eww
$ cargo build --release

then copy the built binary from ./target/release to anywhere in $PATH (example - ~/.local/bin)

Usage

Create a Config and then just do eww!