General Commands Manual

NAME¶

wob - Wayland Overlay Bar

DESCRIPTION¶

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

wob [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.

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

<value>

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

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).

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.