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wob(1)

Wayland Overlay Bar

NAME

wob - Wayland Overlay Bar

DESCRIPTION

wob is a lightweight overlay volume/backlight/progress/anything bar for Wayland.

SYNOPSIS

wob [options...]

OPTIONS

-c, --config <file>

Configuration file location.

-v, --verbose

Increase verbosity of messages, defaults to errors and warnings only.

-V, --version

Show the version number and quit.

-h, --help

Show help message and quit.

USAGE

wob reads values to display from standard input in the following formats:

<value>

or

<value> <style>

Where <value> is number in interval from 0 to max and <style> is style defined in wob.ini(5).

CONFIGURATION

wob searches for a config file in the following locations, in this order:

1. $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wob/wob.ini 2. ~/.config/wob/wob.ini 3. /etc/wob/wob.ini

For information on the config file format, see wob.ini(5).

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables have an effect on wob:

WOB_DISABLE_PLEDGE

Disable seccomp syscall filtering on Linux. Set this if you are having trouble running wob with tools like valgrind.

See also

wob.ini(5)

History

--config since Debian 12 (Bookworm); --verbose since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -V since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -c since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

--anchor until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --background-color until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --bar-color until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --border until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --border-color until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --height until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --margin until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --max until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --offset until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --output until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --padding until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --timeout until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --width until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -H until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -M until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -O until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -W until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -a until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -b until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -m until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -o until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -p until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -t until Debian 11 (Bullseye).