railway-statusbar

Statusbar application for Polybar which moves a train according to your typing speed. Works with X, probably also works on Wayland (needs testing).

Animated example:

Requirements

Requires Python, pynput and emoji.

Installation

1. Clone repo
2. Add railway.py script as a statusbar module:

Polybar

Add as a polybar module:

[module/railway]
type = custom/script
exec = "/usr/bin/python3 -u ~/path/to/railway.py"
tail = true

i3bar

tbd

Known issues

• Might not keep still if your emoji scaling is off. This can be fixed in Polybar by scaling your emoji font, i.e. font-1 = JoyPixels:scale=8.

Planned features

• Persistent storage of total km-counter
• Optional WPM counter