edgelight-for-linux (Waybar)

A simple edge light on screen for low-light video calls, inspired by Apple’s Edge Light -- built using Waybar.

It puts four thin bars around your screen (top, bottom, left, right), lighting up your face from the screen itself. Just like a ring light, but virtual.

Should work with any distro that supports waybar. (Tested with hyprland ☑️)

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What is this?

This project uses Waybar to draw four bars around the edges of the screen. They're passthrough-able. There’s a brightness control so you can tune how strong you want the light to be.

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How it works

• Four Waybar instances are launched:
  • top
  • bottom
  • left
  • right
• CSS to style them a bit
• A small script controls brightness by changing CSS variables

It’s basically a fake ring light made out of simple waybar UI.

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File Tree

edgelight-for-linux  
├── configs  
│   ├── top.jsonc  
│   ├── bottom.jsonc  
│   ├── right.jsonc  
│   ├── left.jsonc  
│   └── shared.css  
├── launch.sh  
├── scripts  
│   └── brightness_slider.sh  
└── README.md  

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Requirements

• Waybar
• bash

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How to run

Clone the repo in ~/.config directory and run:

git clone https://github.com/Atornous12/edgelight-for-linux.git
cd edgelight-for-linux
./launch.sh

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Feedback & contributions

This project is still rough around the edges. If you have ideas, bug reports, or improvements, feel free to open an issue or a pull request.
I’m happy to learn and improve it with help from others.

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License

MIT