citron — ditch your panel for some snazzy desktop notifications.
It is: - a non-intrusive alternative to panels. - on-demand, i.e. does not run in the background. - working across different distributions, window managers and desktop environments.
citron leverages the performance-tailored libmacchina crate to retrieve your system information, and makes use of the notify-rust crate to send you that data in the form of notifications.
Set a keybinding to one or all of citron's functionalities (see --help),
and watch it do its magic 🪄
Here's what this would look like on sway:
bash
bindsym $mod+Alt+d exec citron -d # Date
bindsym $mod+Alt+u exec citron -u # Uptime
bindsym $mod+Alt+b exec citron -b # Battery
bindsym $mod+Alt+m exec citron -m # Memory
bindsym $mod+Alt+l exec citron -l # Backlight
bindsym $mod+Alt+n exec citron -n -i wlan0 # Network
citron can also display icons, and in some cases, the icons are
contextually-aware. To get a feel for this
feature, append the following flags to one of your commands -I -T
<icon-theme>, e.g. citron --date -IT Papirus
-I enables the usage of icons.-T takes the name of an icon theme.Don't know what icon themes you have installed? Use the -L flag.
The battery and date notification are smart enough to change their icon depending on the context.
"Go explore them, I don't want spoil all the fun."
citron can notify you about your: - [x] Date - [x] Uptime - [x] Memory - [x] Network - [x] Battery - [x] Backlight
citron requires the following dependencies to be able to display its notifications:
cargo install citron
pkgin install citron