Quickshell Dynamic Island

Just a simple recreation of dynamic islands we found on our phones.

Dependencies:

1. Quickshell.
2. MPRIS (auto installed on most new systems).
3. Matugen (optional, for color theme generation).
4. San Francisco, Jetbrains MonoNerd Fonts.

What you will need to do:

1. Clone this repository either via git clone https://github.com/ps2string/quickshell-simple-dynisland/ for via Download .ZIP from "Code" > "Local" > "Download .ZIP".
2. Extract the contents to any location you want to (preferably directly inside ~/.config/quickshell.
3. (IF extracted other than ~/.config/quickshell (i.e ~/Downloads), move the folder into ~/.config/quickshell.
4. To run it, just type in qs -p ~/.config/quickshell/dynamic-island inside your terminal.

For color theming

• Your matugen colors.json (~/.config/matugen/templates/) should have this inside:

{
  "colors": {
    "surface": "{{colors.surface.default.hex}}",
    "surface_container": "{{colors.surface_container.default.hex}}",
    "on_surface": "{{colors.on_surface.default.hex}}",
    "on_surface_variant": "{{colors.on_surface_variant.default.hex}}",
    "primary": "{{colors.primary.default.hex}}",
    "outline": "{{colors.outline.default.hex}}",
    "outline_variant": "{{colors.outline_variant.default.hex}}"
  }
}

• For config.toml (~/.config/matugen/)

[config]
# Any configuration, just put here. (i have none)

[templates.json]
input_path = "~/.config/matugen/templates/colors.json"
output_path = "~/.config/quickshell/dynamic-island/colors.json"

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