Dominique Martinet
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niri v25.08 added window positions to IPC, so waybar actually has the information stored in json around. This handles the associated WindowLayoutsChanged IPC message to keep the position up to date in memory, and adds a couple of format messages to show the current column, so one can dislpay where we are in the workspace (in the hope of improving this feeling of being lost...) Ideally a visual representation of the workspace like the one illustrated in the PR[1] would be even better but this will probably do for now. Link: https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/pull/1265#issuecomment-2724621758 [1]
Waybar 
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Available in all major distributions
Waybar examples
Current features
- Sway (Workspaces, Binding mode, Focused window name)
- River (Mapping mode, Tags, Focused window name)
- Hyprland (Window Icons, Workspaces, Focused window name)
- Niri (Workspaces, Focused window name, Language)
- DWL (Tags, Focused window name) requires dwl ipc patch
- Tray #21
- Local time
- Battery
- UPower
- Power profiles daemon
- Network
- Bluetooth
- Pulseaudio
- Privacy Info
- Wireplumber
- Disk
- Memory
- Cpu load average
- Temperature
- MPD
- Custom scripts
- Custom image
- Multiple output configuration
- And many 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 setup 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]
xkbregistry
upower [UPower battery 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 \
upower \
libxkbregistry-dev
On Arch, you can use this command:
pacman -S \
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
Contributions welcome!
Have fun :)
The style guidelines are Google's
License
Waybar is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.