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macbook: add wob OSD for keyboard backlight keys

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wob (Wayland OSD Bar) runs as a systemd user service listening on a FIFO.
Keyboard brightness keybindings now pipe the new brightness percentage to
the FIFO after each adjustment, showing a progress bar overlay.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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rope 2026-05-17 13:47:59 +01:00
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@ -33,10 +33,30 @@
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower = "suspend";
};
home-manager.users.fred = { ... }: {
home-manager.users.fred = { pkgs, ... }: {
wayland.windowManager.hyprland.settings.monitor =
[ ",preferred,auto,auto" ];
# wob reads 0-100 integers from a FIFO and shows a progress bar overlay
systemd.user.services.wob = {
Unit = {
Description = "Wayland OSD Bar";
After = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
PartOf = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
};
Service = {
Type = "simple";
ExecStart = "${pkgs.writeShellScript "wob-start" ''
rm -f "%t/wob.fifo"
mkfifo "%t/wob.fifo"
tail -f "%t/wob.fifo" | ${pkgs.wob}/bin/wob
''}";
ExecStopPost = "${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/rm -f %t/wob.fifo";
Restart = "on-failure";
};
Install.WantedBy = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
};
systemd.user.services.kbd-backlight-init = {
Unit = {
Description = "Set keyboard backlight to 10% on login";