Pwrmenu

A power menu built with GTK4. Works with wayland/xwayland, supports theming and custom screen locker command.

Requirements

• Rust v1.81
• Cargo v1.81

Development dependencies

• gtk4-devel
• gtk4-layer-shell-devel

Installation

Clone the project git clone git@github.com:kamilernerd/pwrmenu.git

Simply run following in the project root ./install.sh

If the script asks for password, provide it. The binary expects to have CAP_SYS_BOOT capabilities.

Read more here: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html

The binary will be installed in $HOME/.cargo/bin/pwrmenu

Now run pwrmenu

When executed for the first time a theme.css and a config.json file will be created at $HOME/.config/pwrmenu.

These files contain the theme which can be modified or turned off in the config file.

You can also provide custom screen-lock command in the config file if you're using a different screen-locker.

Preview

Running on Fedora 40 (Gnome) with Hyprland (xwayland).

Options

{
    "use_system_theme": true,          // Use default system theme or allow for theme.css to override
    "lock_screen": "",                 // Custom command to trigger lock-screen
    "buttons_layout": {
        "orientation": "horizontal",   // horizontal | vertical
        "vertical_align": "center",    // start | end | center | baseline
        "horizontal_align": "center"   // start | end | center | baseline
    },
    "anchor": {
        "left": true,                  // anchor window to left
        "right": true,                 // anchor window to right
        "top": false,                  // anchor window to top
        "bottom": true                 // anchor window to bottom
    },
    "size": {
        "width": "500",                // "number" | "screen" uses screen width
        "height": "300"                // "number" | "screen" uses screen height
    }
}

Theming

You can override the styles as you wish using gtk css https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/css-properties.html . Including each button separately. Simply reference their ID in the css.

Button ids:

• lock
• logout
• suspend
• reboot
• shutdown

Example:

#lock {
    background-color: red;
}

#lock:hover {
    background-color: pink;
}