A lightweight, floating text widget for X11 that stays on top of your windows. Perfect for quick notes, reminders, or displaying information on your desktop.

• 🎯 Floating - Stays on top of windows, doesn't interfere with workflow
• 🎨 Transparent - Clean, unobtrusive appearance with alpha support
• 📝 Customizable - Font size, position, colors via Xresources
• 🖱️ Draggable - Move anywhere with left-click drag
• ⌨️ Keyboard friendly - Close with Escape or q
• 📦 Low memory footprint - ~(1.9MB+9.3MB) Private+Shared per instance

make
make install

• X11 libraries (libX11, libXext)
• Xft (libXft)
• Fontconfig (fontconfig)
• FreeType (freetype2)

On Artix/Arch:

sudo pacman -S libx11 libxext libxft fontconfig freetype2

On Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install libx11-dev libxext-dev libxft-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype-dev

snote [OPTIONS] "text"
snote -h

# Simple note
snote "Hello, world!"

# Positioned with custom font size
snote -x 200 -y 300 -s 20 "Hello, World!"

# Sticky note with box
snote -S -a -b "Important Note"

# Using a file
snote "$(cat ~/Documents/note.txt)"

# Multiline
snote "$(printf "Hello\nWorld")"
snote "$(echo -e "Hello\nWorld")"
snote "$(fortune)"

Add these to your ~/.Xresources:

! ── snote colors ──
*.foreground: #5a3d5c
*.background: #f5ebf0
*.color1: #ff7b9c
*.faceName: ComicShannsMono Nerd Font
*.fontSize: 16

You can add these to your ~/.config/i3/config:

bindsym $mod+o mode "open"
mode "open" {
    bindsym n exec --no-startup-id ~/.config/rofi/snote, mode "default"
    Shift+n exec --no-startup-id ~/.config/rofi/snote -b, mode "default"
    bindsym Ctrl+v exec snote "$(xclip -selection clipboard -o)", mode "default"
}

Create ~/.local/bin/snote-rofi:

#!/bin/bash

xkb-switch -s us

text=$(rofi -dmenu \
    -p "📝 Note: " \
    -theme-str 'window {width: 50%; height: 6em;}' \
    -hide-scrollbar)

if [ -n "$text" ]; then
    snote "$@" "$text"
fi

• i3wm - Recommended window manager
• Picom - X compositor for transparency
• Rofi - Input dialog integration

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