6 files changed, 73 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/.skip-subtree b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/.skip-subtree
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..954981f436ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/.skip-subtree
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Stuff below here is managed manually, without readTree.
diff --git a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/default.nix b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/default.nix
index 2e270bbc3891..d536d3a494cd 100644
--- a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/default.nix
+++ b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-_: {
+args: {
   dunstrc = ./dunstrc;
   niri = ./niri.config.kdl;
-  waybar = ./waybar;
+  waybar = {
+    config = import ./waybar/config.nix args;
+    style = ./waybar/style.css;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/niri.config.kdl b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/niri.config.kdl
index 813a049f1b6f..8a9ed39f5a29 100644
--- a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/niri.config.kdl
+++ b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/niri.config.kdl
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ layout {
 spawn-at-startup "xwayland-satellite"
 spawn-at-startup "xrandr --output eDP-1 --primary"
 spawn-at-startup "wpaperd" "-d"
-spawn-at-startup "waybar"
 spawn-at-startup "systemctl --user start xss-lock"
 
 environment {
diff --git a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/config.jsonc b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/config.jsonc
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d3dbadb4511..000000000000
--- a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/config.jsonc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-// TODO: idle-inhibitor? image (tux?)?
-{
-  "layer": "top",
-  "position": "bottom",
-  "modules-right": ["pulseaudio", "backlight", "battery", "tray", "clock"],
-  "pulseaudio": {
-    "on-click": "pavucontrol",
-    // Font "Awesome" speaker icons can't be made to render, I don't care why, emoji time.
-    "format": "{volume}% 🎧",
-    "format-muted": "{volume}% "
-  },
-  "battery": {
-	"format": "{capacity}% {icon}",
-    "format-icons": ["", "", "", "", ""]
-  },
-  "backlight": {
-    "format": "{percent}% {icon}",
-    "format-icons": [""],
-    "on-scroll-up": "light -A 1",
-    "on-scroll-down": "light -U 1"
-  },
-  "clock": {
-	"format-alt": "{:%a, %d. %b  %H:%M}"
-  },
-  "tray": {
-    "icon-size": 20,
-    "spacing": 10
-  }
-}
diff --git a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/config.nix b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/config.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e65edabe7d19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/config.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{ depot, pkgs, ... }:
+
+let
+  launcher = "${pkgs.xfce4-appfinder}/bin/xfce4-appfinder --disable-server";
+in
+{
+  mainBar = {
+    layer = "top";
+    position = "bottom";
+    modules-left = [ "image#start" "custom/start" ];
+
+    "image#start" = {
+      path = "${depot.third_party.chicago95}/share/icons/Chicago95/panel/24/start-here.png";
+      size = 24;
+      on-click = "xfce4-appfinder --disable-server";
+    };
+
+    "custom/start" = {
+      format = " Start";
+      on-click = "xfce4-appfinder --disable-server";
+    };
+
+    modules-right = [ "pulseaudio" "backlight" "battery" "tray" "clock" ];
+
+    pulseaudio = {
+      on-click = "pavucontrol";
+      # Font "Awesome" speaker icons can't be made to render, I don't care why, emoji time.
+      format = "{volume}% 🎧";
+      format-muted = "{volume}% ";
+    };
+
+    battery = {
+      format = "{capacity}% {icon}";
+      format-icons = [ "" "" "" "" "" ];
+    };
+
+    backlight = {
+      format = "{percent}% {icon}";
+      format-icons = [ "" ];
+      on-scroll-up = "light -A 1";
+      on-scroll-down = "light -U 1";
+    };
+
+    clock.format-alt = "{:%a, %d. %b  %H:%M}";
+
+    tray = {
+      icon-size = 20;
+      spacing = 10;
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/style.css b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/style.css
index 5591545085a6..319ef695e23e 100644
--- a/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/style.css
+++ b/users/tazjin/dotfiles/waybar/style.css
@@ -77,8 +77,23 @@ button:hover {
     margin: 0 4px;
 }
 
+#custom-start {
+    padding-bottom: 1px;
+    margin-right: 1px;
+}
+
+/* pop out left "modules" (start button) */
+.modules-left {
+    margin: 3px;
+    border-right: 1px solid gray;
+    border-bottom: 1px solid gray;
+    border-left: 1px solid white;
+    border-top: 1px solid white;
+    font-weight: bold;
+}
+
 /* indent right modules like in the original */
-.modules-right, .modules-left {
+.modules-right {
     margin: 3px;
     border-top: 1px solid gray;
     border-left: 1px solid gray;