hypr-helper

This is my second official rust project.

Things learnt

• How to build a CLI Tool.
• Writing tests
• Maintaining the application so it doesn’t break.
• Writing documentation and publishing to docs.rs

Features

• Workspace information
• Active window title
• EWW - returns EWW widget with workspace data.

Version 1

• It will return data when requested through the CLI using the command.

I polled for data. I felt like this was rather resource intensive.

Version 2

• Listens to UNIX socket for changes rather than polling data.
• Serialises and de-serialises data.

Vision

I want to create my own status bar that will be more efficient than EWW, which I am currently using. So this is my start of creating more and more modules that I can later use in the status bar project.

Testing

I wrote some unit tests in 0.0.5+. You will obviously need Hyprland installed and running for them to pass.

Versions

There is two versions, the first one was called hyprland-workspaces.

After its development and use for about 4-5 months. I decided I could rewrite it better and more efficient. You can find it here https://github.com/hegde-atri/hyprland-workspaces.

Then I rewrote it to listen to a UNIX socket rather polling data. When I started rewriting it, I decided to:

1. Rename it to avoid confusion with another project. It is now called hypr-helper
2. Moved the project from GitHub to Codeberg.

You can visit the repository at https://codeberg.org/hegde-atri/hypr-helper.