Waybar

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and wlroots-based compositors.
Available in all major distributions.

Installation · Wiki · Configuration · Styling · Examples · FAQ

Features

Compositor integration

Compositor	Workspaces / Tags	Window	Layout	Language	Mode
Sway	✅	✅		✅	✅
River	✅	✅	✅		✅
Hyprland	✅	✅		✅	✅
Niri	✅	✅		✅
Mango	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
DWL	✅	✅
Wayfire	✅	✅

DWL requires the dwl IPC patch.

Modules

• Power & hardware — Battery, UPower, Power profiles daemon, Backlight, CPU, Memory, Disk, Temperature
• Connectivity — Network, Bluetooth, GPS, WWAN
• Audio & media — PulseAudio, WirePlumber, JACK, sndio, Cava, MPD, MPRIS
• Desktop — Clock & calendar, System tray, Idle inhibitor, Keyboard state, Privacy, Gamemode, Systemd failed units, Image, Custom scripts

…and more. Every module is documented on the wiki (see the Modules sidebar).

Getting started

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. To make it yours, copy the default config and stylesheet into ~/.config/waybar/ and edit them. The Configuration and Styling guides cover every option, and Examples has ready-to-use community setups.

Installation

Waybar is packaged by most 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
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

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

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. The style guidelines are Google's C++ style.

Docs live in the man pages. Module documentation is written in man/ (scdoc) and auto-synced to the wiki. Edit the man page, not the wiki — see .github/wiki.

Caution

Distributions of Waybar are only released on the official GitHub page.
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.