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+# This is a fork!
+
+This is my fork of [Waybar](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar). It has a few
+changes with the biggest being that it works with my fork or river (the Wayland
+compositor). In fact, it will probably **not** work with vanilla river.
+
# Waybar [](LICENSE) [](https://paypal.me/ARouillard)

> Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.