swab is a simple status bar for wayland compositors that implement the layer shell protocol. The status is read from stdin and is expected to be newline terminated and utf-8 encoded.

Works well with muxst

• wayland
• pixman
• fcft
• wayland-scanner (for building)
• pkg-config (for building)

git clone https://github.com/levipare/swab
cd swab
make

Pipe your status generating utility into swab.

while date; do sleep 1; done | swab

swab is configured via command flags. Run swab -h to view the options.

View man fonts-conf to see the available font config attributes.

The following sets the font (in pt), foreground color (RGBA), and background color (RGBA).

swab -f TerminessNerdFont:size=12 -F 0xccccccff -B 0x005555ff