eww#

A minimal top bar for Quickshell on Niri.

Features#

• Window strip — shows all windows on the current workspace, ordered by niri column position. Focused window is highlighted, unfocused are greyscaled. Click to focus.
• System tray — full StatusNotifier support with native DBusMenu popups (including submenus on hover).
• Audio widget — shows current default sink volume, scroll to adjust by 1%, click to open a sink picker powered by PipeWire directly.
• Battery — charge percentage with a level/charging icon (via UPower); turns red when low, green while charging. Hidden on machines with no battery.
• Wattage — live power draw/charge rate in watts (via UPower); shows - while discharging, + while charging. Hidden when idle or on desktops.
• Clock — current time, updates every second.

Multi-monitor aware — one bar instance per screen, each showing only that screen's windows.

Dependencies#

• Quickshell ≥ 0.2.0
• Niri
• PipeWire
• niri in $PATH (for window tracking via IPC)
• Fonts: Inter, Maple Mono (for the audio icon glyph)
• An icon theme with app icons (e.g. Papirus)

Usage#

qs -c ~/.config/quickshell/eww

Or add to your niri config for autostart:

spawn-at-startup "qs" "-c" "/home/callie/.config/quickshell/eww"

Note: Quickshell must be launched with UseQApplication mode for system tray menus to work. This is handled automatically by the //@ pragma UseQApplication directive at the top of shell.qml.

Structure#

eww/
├── shell.qml   # everything, for now
└── README.md

Theming#

All colours and fonts are hardcoded inline and easy to grep for: