From 213270aef5cb2e7f96cb38f62472ef275f5ecb93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ryukamish <asuskr25@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:32:54 +0530
Subject: add: custom window title module for waybar

---
 .config/waybar/config.jsonc |  15 +++++++++++----
 .config/waybar/style.css    |   2 +-
 .local/bin/waybar-window    | Bin 0 -> 1133392 bytes
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 .local/bin/waybar-window

diff --git a/.config/waybar/config.jsonc b/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
index a5ac16f..3b6dde6 100644
--- a/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
+++ b/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 	"position": "top",
 	"modules-left": [
     "clock",
-		"sway/window"
+		"custom/window"
 	],
 	"modules-center": [
 		"sway/workspaces"
@@ -21,9 +21,16 @@
 		"all-outputs": true,
 		"format": "{name}"
 	},
-	"sway/window": {
-	"format": "<span color='#aaaaaa'>{app_id} {title}</span>",
-	"max-length": 40
+	"custom/window": {
+		"exec": "~/.local/bin/waybar-window",
+		"exec-if": "~/.local/bin/waybar-window",
+		"format": "<span color='#aaaaaa'>{}</span>",
+		"return-type": "json",
+		"max-length": 60,
+		"tooltip": false,
+		// titles where special characters are present weren't being shown
+		// this solves that
+		"escape": true
 	},
 	"clock": {
 		"format": "{:%a, %b %d/%m/%y %H:%M}",
diff --git a/.config/waybar/style.css b/.config/waybar/style.css
index 21487b3..58464b9 100644
--- a/.config/waybar/style.css
+++ b/.config/waybar/style.css
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ window#waybar {
 
 #clock,
 #battery,
-#window,
+#custom-window,
 #backlight,
 /* Custom modules */
 #custom-vpn,
diff --git a/.local/bin/waybar-window b/.local/bin/waybar-window
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..807b29b
Binary files /dev/null and b/.local/bin/waybar-window differ
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