Noctalia

• Website
• C++
• TOML config, hot reload
• Sane ethos, compared to Hyprland or Omarchy i.e.
• Config for different compositors
  • Umbriel, Niri, Hyprland, Sway, Mango, LabWC, KDE Plasma
• GitHub: 11.9k 
• Which is better for multi-monitor setup DUX/DMX or Noctalia

Installation

• The Noctalia Manjaro package lacks ~ 1 month behind the upstream Arch package
• noctalia-greeter
• is only in Manjaro testing + unstable, but there's the noctalia-greeter-git AUR package

Install:

sudo pacman -S noctalia
pamac install noctalia-greeter-git

Setup noctalia-greeter

• Configure greetd
• Preferences state: /var/lib/noctalia-greeter/sync.toml

Config

• How configuration works
• Local config: ~/.config/noctalia/*.toml
• GUI-/API managed overrides: ~/.local/state/noctalia/settings.toml

Plugins

• Using Plugins
• Plugin catalog
• Plugin install location: ~/.local/state/noctalia/plugins/materialized/
• FR: Allow plugin config via dotfiles

List and update plugin sources:

noctalia msg plugins source list
noctalia msg plugins update official
noctalia msg plugins update community

List available plugins and enable one:

noctalia msg plugins list
noctalia msg plugins enable kenn/keybind-cheatsheet

List enabled plugins:

noctalia msg plugins list | grep -v disabled

Useful plugins:

• Screen-record
  • official/screen_recorder
  • community/region-recorder
  • community/screen-capture
• Audio
  • community/audio-switcher
  • community/headsetcontrol
• Phone
  • community/phone-operate
  • community/androidconnect
  • community/phone-connect
• Etc
  • community/rbw-enhanced
  • community/keybind-cheatsheet
    • FR: Fuzzy search
    • FR: Support TOML config
  • community/stdout
    • Run a command periodically and display its output as bar widget text.
  • community/systemd
  • community/tailnet
  • community/hassio