Volume/Brightness OSD

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I wanted an easier way to visualise the current volume because the volume icon on the uConsole Bookworm is tiny. I hacked together a quick OSD for volume and brightness using dunst. Hope you find them helpful!

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Place the two scripts below in your preferred location and then modify ~/.config/wayfire.ini to call them in addition to the current commands.

binding_light_up=KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP
command_light_up=brightnessctl s +1 && ~/.config/brightness_osd.sh
binding_light_down=KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN
command_light_down=brightnessctl s 1- && ~/.config/brightness_osd.sh
binding_volume_up=KEY_VOLUMEUP
command_volume_up=wfpanelctl volumepulse volu && ~/.config/volume_osd.sh
binding_volume_down=KEY_VOLUMEDOWN
command_volume_down=wfpanelctl volumepulse vold && ~/.config/volume_osd.sh

volume_osd.sh

#!/bin/bash

PERCENT=$(amixer sget Master | grep "Left:" | cut -d "[" -f 2 | cut -d "%" -f 1)
MUTED=$(amixer sget Master | grep -c "off")

if [ $MUTED -gt 0 ]
then
  PERCENT="0"
fi

dunstify \
  -h string:x-dunst-stack-tag:osd \
  -h string:bgcolor:#888888ee \
  -h string:hlcolor:#00bbff \
  -h int:value:"$PERCENT" \
  -t 1500 \
  "Volume:"

brightness_osd.sh

#!/bin/bash

CURRENT=$(brightnessctl g)
MAX=$(brightnessctl m)

PERCENT=$((100*$CURRENT/$MAX))

dunstify \
-h string:x-dunst-stack-tag:osd \
-h string:bgcolor:#888888cc \
-h string:hlcolor:#00bbff \
-h int:value:"$PERCENT" \
-t 1500 \
"Brightness:"
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Nice, that’s one thing I was missing just not enough to do anything about it. I installed it and made the scripts as soon as I seen this and it works well. Thanks!

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I updated my keyboard to the most recent firmware which includes mute.

volume_osd.sh in the OP has been patched to set PERCENT to 0 when muted.

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This is great! Do you have any idea of how to set this up on Xorg?

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I updated my uconsole to use labwc when prompted. Doing so breaks to OSD.

Adding the following to the keyboard section of ~/.config/labwc/rc.xml restores it:

    <keybind key="XF86_AudioLowerVolume">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master 5%-" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master 5%+" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master toggle" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_MonBrightnessUp">
      <action name="Execute" command="brightnessctl set +10%" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/brightness_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_MonBrightnessDown">
      <action name="Execute" command="brightnessctl set 10%-" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/brightness_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
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that didn’t seem to work here is my rc.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc"/>

<labwc_config>
  <keyboard>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioLowerVolume">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master 5%-" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master 5%+" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master toggle" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_MonBrightnessUp">
      <action name="Execute" command="brightnessctl set +10%" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/brightness_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_MonBrightnessDown">
      <action name="Execute" command="brightnessctl set 10%-" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/brightness_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
  </keyboard>
</labwc_config>

my config was blank except this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc"/>
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Ahh I found that I had to ignore the bit about `<labwc_config> and instead have it be:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc">
  <keyboard>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioLowerVolume">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master 5%-" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioRaiseVolume">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master 5%+" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_AudioMute">
      <action name="Execute" command="amixer sset Master toggle" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/volume_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_MonBrightnessUp">
      <action name="Execute" command="brightnessctl set +10%" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/brightness_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
    <keybind key="XF86_MonBrightnessDown">
      <action name="Execute" command="brightnessctl set 10%-" />
      <action name="Execute" command="~/.config/brightness_osd.sh" />
    </keybind>
  </keyboard>
</openbox_config>

:man_shrugging:

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That did the trick! Great work again on the OSD.

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