waytext

Display text on all outputs with colouring. Useful for getting attention such as for taking breaks or other alerts.

It currently works on Sway 1.0.

Usage

waytext -h

When shown, the user can dismiss the display using Escape or using the left mouse button.

Building

Install dependencies:

• meson
• wayland
• cairo
• scdoc (optional: man pages)

Then run, using the provided Makefile:

make build
make install

Or manually:

meson build
ninja -C build
build/waytext

Contributing

Any contributions are welcome, via issues or pull requests.

Thanks

This is currently largely code from slurp, adapted for this purpose.

License

MIT