Credits

This is a fork of https://gitlab.com/Nmoleo/i3-volume-brightness-indicator

The microphone control is based on https://gitlab.com/rituparnaw16/i3-volume-brightness-indicator/-/blob/main/volume_brightness.sh?ref_type=heads

Windows-Style Media & Brightness Notifications using Dunst

This is a Bash script that uses Dunst to show an indicator on the screen when the volume, brightness, and song are changed. It ties into playerctl to fetch the current song title/artist/album. It can fetch the album art from a file or URL, and it will cache album art files in /tmp to reduce data usage and improve speeds. Album art has been tested with YouTube and Spotify on Arch Linux.

Dependancies

• PulseAudio
• light
• Font Awesome (dnf install fontawesome-fonts fontawesome5-fonts / pacman -S ttf-font-awesome)
• dunst (dnf install dunst / pacman -S dunst)

Installation

1. Verify that all of the dependencies are installed
2. Edit media-control and set your desired values for the configuration options at the top
3. Copy media-control to a directory on your PATH
4. Edit ~/.config/dunst/dunstrc
5. Under the [global] section, add Font Awesome 5 Free Regular
6. Change origin to bottom-center or your desired location

For i3 keybindings:

1. Edit ~/.config/i3/config
2. Add the following lines:

   bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec --no-startup-id media-control volume_up
   bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec --no-startup-id media-control volume_down
   bindsym XF86AudioMute exec --no-startup-id media-control volume_mute
   bindsym XF86MonBrightnessUp exec --no-startup-id media-control brightness_up
   bindsym XF86MonBrightnessDown exec --no-startup-id media-control brightness_down
   bindsym XF86AudioPlayPause exec --no-startup-id media-control play_pause
   bindsym XF86AudioPause exec --no-startup-id media-control play_pause
   bindsym XF86AudioPlay exec --no-startup-id media-control play_pause
   bindsym XF86AudioNext exec --no-startup-id media-control next_track
   bindsym XF86AudioPrev exec --no-startup-id media-control prev_track
   

Configuration Reference

• volume_step - The amount by which the volume should be incremented/decremented each time the script is run
• brightness_step - The amount by which the brightness should be incremented/decremented each time the script is run
• max_volume - The maximum allowable volume. Typically 100.
• notification_timeout - The amount of time a notification should stay on the screen, in milliseconds
• download_album_art - Specifies if curl should be used to download album art if it's not a locally cached file
• show_album_art - Specifies if the album art should be displayed
• show_music_in_volume_indicator - Specifies if music information should be displayed along with the volume notification