tips_and_tricks.md

Tips and Tricks

This section lists some tips and tricks you can use to make your day-to-day work with newm and wayland easier. If you know of any other useful tips and tricks open a pr.

Open any electron application natively with wayland

This trick consists of simply creating a script that passes the necessary flags to it so that it opens natively with wayland. The script is as follows /usr/loacal/open-wl:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

flags=--ozone-platform-hint=auto'
$1 $flags $2

usage:

$ open-wl brave

personally I like to add other additional flags to enhance the experience. Below is my script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

flags='--ozone-platform-hint=auto \
--enable-features=WebRTCPipeWireCapturer \
--enable-gpu \
--ignore-gpu-blocklist \
--enable-gpu-rasterization \
--enable-zero-copy \
--disable-gpu-driver-bug-workarounds \
--enable-features=VaapiVideoDecoder \
--disable-software-rasterizer \
--start-maximized \
--js-flags="--max-old-space-size=5120"'

$1 $flags $2

Ideally, all electron applications should read the electrom-flags.conf file, but as long as this is not a standard, this will be of great help.

You can improve this trick by modifying or creating the .desktop files that you want to open natively.

Change wallpaper when reconfigure

this trick is quite simple and consists only in creating a folder with numbered images, below I show an example of how to call these images randomly every time you reconfigure the system:

newm config:

background = {
    "path": os.environ["HOME"] + f"/images/random/bg-{randrange(1, 5)}.jpg",
    "time_scale": 0.125,
    "anim": True,
}

Python

The simple fact of using python to configure is already a trick in itself. Below I will list a set of code snippets that will make your configuration cleaner.

Use tuples in your startup applications

Example:

def on_startup():
    init_service = (
        "/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1",
        "systemctl --user import-environment \
        DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP",
        "hash dbus-update-activation-environment 2>/dev/null && \
        dbus-update-activation-environment --systemd \
        DISPLAY WAYLAND_DISPLAY XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP",
        "wl-paste -t text --watch clipman store",
        "wlsunset -l 16.0867 -L -93.7561 -t 2500 -T 6000",
        "thunar --daemon",
        "waybar",
        "nm-applet --indicator",
        "/home/crag/Git/dotfiles/etc/dnscrypt-proxy/get_blocklist",
    )

    for service in init_service:
        service = f"{service} &"
        os.system(service)

Use variables for your repetitive rules

Example:

def rules(view):
    common_rules = {"float": True, "float_size": (750, 750), "float_pos": (0.5, 0.35)}
    float_apps = ("pavucontrol", "blueman-manager") #applications that I want to define as floating
    blur_apps = ("kitty", "rofi", "waybar") # applications in which I want to have the blur effect
    if view.app_id in float_apps:
        return common_rules
    if view.app_id in blur_apps:
        return {"blur": {"radius": 6, "passes": 4}}
    return None