Wayland tools

See also Useful add ons for sway

Clipboards

• Hyprland docs: Clipboard Managers
• Keeping secrets secret with keepassxc, clipman and swaywm
• Securing Clipboard Privacy on Wayland and Hyprland with a Custom wl-paste Script

Tools:

• cliphist
  • Default in mylinux4work hyprland setup
  • DB: ~/.cache/cliphist/db (BoltDB)
    • By default world-readable: chmod 600 ~/.cache/cliphist/db
    • Forever growing, until completely purged with cliphist wipe
• clipman
• wayclip
  • Supports DB encryption (but doesn't document how)
  • AUR package: wayclip-manager-git

wayland-clipboard

• Github

Ubuntu eoan packaged wl-clipboard 1.0 won't work with sway 1.2

Build and install:

cd ~/projects/wayland/wl-clipboard
gup
rm -rf build; meson build && ninja -C build && sudo ninja -C build install

Libappindicator tray

Electron apps

from Libappindicator tray #21:

You need libappindicator-gtk3 (added to AUR package) and launch apps with env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity slack

Notifications

Sway notification center

• GitHub
• feature req: Persistence across restart

Mako

Notification daemon

• Debian ITP

Battery warning notifications

• Reddit thread
• poweralertd: No config possible
• swaynag-battery: Configurable
• batsignal

Debug input events

sudo libinput debug-events