AlexandClaude Opus 4.8
72fdf77c19
A full man<->code consistency audit surfaced options, format placeholders
and CSS classes that were implemented but undocumented, documented but not
implemented (some causing fmt crashes when copied from examples), and
defaults that disagreed with the code. This aligns the docs with the code
and fixes a few genuine code gaps.
Docs:
- Add the missing waybar-user(5) man page (and register it in meson.build)
- Document previously-undocumented options/placeholders/CSS across many
modules (custom image-path/image-name/icon-size, graph_type/width/
datapoints; battery smooth-power; wireplumber format-source/only-physical;
mpris {position}/prefer-album-artist; network {signalStrengthApp}/compact
bandwidth; pulseaudio {source_volume}/{source_desc}; upower {temperature}/
{model}/{native-path}; wwan {power_state}/{imei}; tray ignore-list; and
many CSS state classes: .sink-muted, .source-muted, .workspace-hover, etc.)
- Correct documented defaults to match the code (hyprland format {name},
gamemode {count}, cpu-graph interval 5, cava input_delay 4, niri taskbar
icon-size 16, disk/gps/wayfire formats, menu-actions object type, ...)
- Remove placeholders/options that do not apply (custom-graph {icon}/format/
format-icons/rotate) and fix crashing examples (wwan {mode}, gps
format-no-fix); note cava background/foreground/continuous_rendering are
cava-config-file options
Code:
- bluetooth: accept the documented `controller` key as a synonym of
`controller-alias` (the option was silently ignored)
- mango/workspaces: supply the documented `{name}` fmt arg (was missing ->
fmt::format threw)
- privacy: read `tooltip` as a bool (was guarded on isString(), so the
documented `tooltip: false` was silently ignored)
All man pages validated with scdoc 1.11.4. Not compiled locally (no gtkmm);
C++ build relies on CI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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, Layout)
- Hyprland (Window Icons, Workspaces, Focused window name)
- Niri (Workspaces, Focused window name, Language)
- Mango (Workspaces, Focused window name, Language, Keymode)
- 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 --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
Contributions welcome!
Have fun :)
The style guidelines are Google's
Caution
Distributions of Waybar are only released on the official GitHub page.
Waybar does not have an official website. Do not trust any sites that claim to be official.
License
Waybar is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.