# Waybar
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> Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and wlroots-based compositors.
> Available in [all major distributions](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Installation).
**[Installation](#installation) · [Wiki](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki) · [Configuration](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration) · [Styling](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Styling) · [Examples](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Examples) · [FAQ](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/FAQ)**
## Features
### Compositor integration
| Compositor | Workspaces / Tags | Window | Layout | Language | Mode |
| --- | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: |
| [Sway](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Sway) | ✅ | ✅ | | ✅ | ✅ |
| [River](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-River) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | | ✅ |
| [Hyprland](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Hyprland) | ✅ | ✅ | | ✅ | ✅ |
| [Niri](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Niri) | ✅ | ✅ | | ✅ | |
| [Mango](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Mango) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| [DWL](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Dwl) | ✅ | ✅ | | | |
| [Wayfire](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Wayfire) | ✅ | ✅ | | | |
> DWL requires the [dwl IPC patch](https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl-patches/src/branch/main/patches/ipc).
### Modules
- **Power & hardware** — [Battery](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Battery), [UPower](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-UPower), [Power profiles daemon](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-PowerProfilesDaemon), [Backlight](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Backlight), [CPU](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-CPU), [Memory](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Memory), [Disk](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Disk), [Temperature](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Temperature)
- **Connectivity** — [Network](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Network), [Bluetooth](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Bluetooth), [GPS](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-GPS), [WWAN](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-WWAN)
- **Audio & media** — [PulseAudio](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-PulseAudio), [WirePlumber](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-WirePlumber), [JACK](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-JACK), [sndio](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Sndio), [Cava](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Cava), [MPD](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-MPD), [MPRIS](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-MPRIS)
- **Desktop** — [Clock & calendar](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Clock), [System tray](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Tray), [Idle inhibitor](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Idle-Inhibitor), [Keyboard state](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Keyboard-State), [Privacy](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Privacy), [Gamemode](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Gamemode), [Systemd failed units](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Systemd-failed-units), [Image](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Image), [Custom scripts](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Custom)
…and more. Every module is documented on the [wiki](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki) (see the *Modules* sidebar).
## Getting started
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
cd Waybar
meson setup build
ninja -C build
./build/waybar # run without installing
```
Waybar launches with a sensible [default config](resources/config.jsonc). To make
it yours, copy the default config and stylesheet into `~/.config/waybar/` and edit
them. The [Configuration](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration)
and [Styling](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Styling) guides cover every
option, and [Examples](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Examples) has
ready-to-use community setups.
## Installation
Waybar is packaged by most distributions:
[](https://repology.org/project/waybar/versions)
An Ubuntu PPA with more recent versions is available [here](https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/waybar).
### Building from source
```bash
git clone https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
cd Waybar
meson setup build
ninja -C build
ninja -C build install # optional
```
Runtime dependencies
```
gtkmm3 jsoncpp libsigc++ fmt wayland
chrono-date spdlog xkbregistry libgtk-3-dev upower
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
```
Install dependencies — Ubuntu
```bash
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 upower \
libxkbregistry-dev
```
Install dependencies — Arch
```bash
pacman -S --asdeps \
gtkmm3 jsoncpp libsigc++ fmt wayland chrono-date spdlog gtk3 \
gobject-introspection libgirepository libpulse libnl libappindicator-gtk3 \
libdbusmenu-gtk3 libmpdclient sndio libevdev libxkbcommon upower meson \
cmake scdoc wayland-protocols glib2-devel
```
## Contributing
Contributions are welcome — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). The style
guidelines are [Google's C++ style](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html).
> **Docs live in the man pages.** Module documentation is written in
> [`man/`](man) (scdoc) and auto-synced to the wiki. Edit the man page, not the
> wiki — see [`.github/wiki`](.github/wiki).
> [!CAUTION]
> Distributions of Waybar are only released on the [official GitHub page](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar).
> Waybar does **not** have an official website. Do not trust any site claiming to be official.
## License
Waybar is licensed under the MIT license. [See LICENSE for details](https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/blob/master/LICENSE).