Waybar

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Available in Arch community or AUR, openSUSE, and Alpine Linux
Waybar examples

Current features

Sway (Workspaces, Binding mode, Focused window name)
Tray #21
Local time
Battery
Network
Bluetooth
Pulseaudio
Disk
Memory
Cpu load average
Temperature
MPD
Custom scripts
Multiple output configuration
And much more customizations

Configuration and Styling

See the wiki for more details.

Installation

Waybar is available from a number of Linux distributions:

An Ubuntu PPA with more recent versions is available here.

Building from source

$ git clone https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
$ cd Waybar
$ meson build
$ ninja -C build
$ ./build/waybar
# If you want to install it
$ ninja -C build install
$ waybar

Dependencies

gtkmm3
jsoncpp
libsigc++
fmt
wayland
chrono-date
spdlog
libgtk-3-dev [gtk-layer-shell]
gobject-introspection [gtk-layer-shell]
libgirepository1.0-dev [gtk-layer-shell]
libpulse [Pulseaudio module]
libnl [Network module]
libappindicator-gtk3 [Tray module]
libdbusmenu-gtk3 [Tray module]
libmpdclient [MPD module]
libsndio [sndio module]
libevdev [KeyboardState module]

Build dependencies

cmake
meson
scdoc
wayland-protocols

On Ubuntu you can install all the relevant dependencies using this command (tested with 19.10 and 20.04):

sudo apt install \
  clang-tidy \
  gobject-introspection \
  libdbusmenu-gtk3-dev \
  libevdev-dev \
  libfmt-dev \
  libgirepository1.0-dev \
  libgtk-3-dev \
  libgtkmm-3.0-dev \
  libinput-dev \
  libjsoncpp-dev \
  libmpdclient-dev \
  libnl-3-dev \
  libnl-genl-3-dev \
  libpulse-dev \
  libsigc++-2.0-dev \
  libspdlog-dev \
  libwayland-dev \
  scdoc

Contributions welcome! - have fun :)
The style guidelines is Google's

License

Waybar is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

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