Labwc menu on Waybar

[tuxslack]

Is it possible to directly call the Labwc menu from the Waybar?

[orfeasxyz]

If you mean to open a menu by clicking on waybar then I doubt this is possible. All the available context menus for keybinds are available under mouse.context in rcxml.

[johanmalm]

Just set a keybind to open the menu and rhen use wtype.
You can also specify position

[tuxslack]

Just set a keybind to open the menu and rhen use wtype. You can also specify position

To call the menu using the keyboard, would it be something like this?

<keybind key="W-space">
    <action name="ShowMenu"/>
</keybind>

It's not working

[orfeasxyz]

You also need to specify which menu to show like this

<action name="ShowMenu" menu="root-menu"/>

All different menu options are listed in the manual.

[tuxslack]

> <action name="ShowMenu" menu="root-menu"/>

wtype W+space # ❌ Doesn't work

[01micko]

IRRC alt+f1 is the default menu keybind if there is no rc.xml

This works for me:

wtype -M alt -k f1 -m alt

If you have the wtype manual installed try man wtype or if not it's online at various places.

[johanmalm]

This works for me wtype -M logo -k Space with the following in rc.xml:

    <keybind key="W-Space">
      <action name="ShowMenu">
        <menu>root-menu</menu>
        <position>
          <x>0</x>
          <y>-0</y>
        </position>
      </action>
    </keybind>

Note the -0 y position to open the menu correctly with a bottom aligned panel.

[johanmalm]

@tuxslack Suggest having a quick look at man pages before asking. We like helping, but time is precious if you know what I mean.

[tokyo4j]

@tuxslack Also, GitHub's discussion feature is more suited for questions like this.

[tuxslack]

waybar-menu.mp4

This works for me wtype -M logo -k Space with the following in rc.xml:

<keybind key="W-Space">
  <action name="ShowMenu">
    <menu>root-menu</menu>
    <position>
      <x>0</x>
      <y>-0</y>
    </position>
  </action>
</keybind>

Note the -0 y position to open the menu correctly with a bottom aligned panel.

$ cat ~/.config/waybar/config

...

    "custom/jgmenu": {
         "format": " ",
         "on-click": "wtype -M logo -k Space",
         "tooltip": false
    },

...

The keyboard shortcut to open the labcw menu works.

However, in Waybar the command is not limited to the icon and opens the menu anywhere on the bar.

[tuxslack]

The -P option does not work

$ wtype -M logo -k Space -P logo
Unknown key 'logo'

Alexays/Waybar#4120