The MPD state machine drives all connection attempts from Glib::signal_timeout callbacks, which run on the GTK main loop. tryConnect() called mpd_connection_new() with the user-facing timeout_ (up to 30s by default), so an unreachable server blocked the whole bar for the full connect timeout. Bound the connect attempt to a short fixed timeout (2000 ms) so a dead server fails fast, then restore the configured timeout_ for subsequent command reads so slow-but-alive servers are unaffected. Fixes #1186.
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.