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Alexays
Waybar
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Alexays / Waybar

Waybar

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

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What it is

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

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Observed mentions: 2018-10-25 17:38:16 UTC to 2025-07-17 07:59:00 UTC.

012018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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mijoharas·Mar 21, 2022
sway laptop user here (for almost 2 years I think?). I spent a little while on this, but I migrated from i3, so I just ported every little section of my config bit by bit. In terms of battery bar and other "bar" type things, I use waybar[0] which basically does all the things you'd expect by default (just install and it "works"). For multi-monitor, config, I initially setup with wdisplays[1] (think arandr for wayland) and then manually copied the positions into my sway config. Monitor positioning was the only thing I needed to setup (and telling it that one monitor was HDPI) and then all of the scaling and everything worked perfectly. This was my biggest selling point for wayland, I now get nice crisp fonts and application scaling works nicely (which was not the case with X). volume control from the keyboard took no time, just a couple of
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extra lines. There was some stuff to do with the clipboard (wl-clipboard[2]) and screenshots (grim[3] + slurp[4]) that required some setup, but again, just a few lines, and didn't take much mental load. Oh and I needed to change my notifications daemon(dunst[5]), and chose to change my program launcher to one with a nicer interface and cleaner fonts (wofi[6]). I think that's all the tweaking that I did. Oh, and I needed to do something with pipewire to sort out screensharing at the start, don't remember that too well though... [0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar [1] https://github.com/artizirk/wdisplays [2] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard [3] https://github.com/emersion/grim [4] https://github.com/emersion/slurp [5] https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst [6] https://hg.sr.ht/~scoopta/wofi
In Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
solarkraft·Mar 10, 2021
Yay for wlroots based Wayland compositors! Besides the tiling Sway there's also the stacking Wayfire[0] that is from the same family, but modeled after Compiz (blur, desktop cube and good old wobbly windows are all there) and highly configurable. I use it with Waybar[1], wf-dock[2], Sirula[3] as a launcher and a bunch of other small tools like Gammastep[4] (fork of Redshift) for white balance adjustment, grim & slurp [5] for screenshots and mako[6] for notifications. [7] It's a very DIY-y experience, but it's meant to be (if you want something pre-configured you can barely change try Gnome). The combination of getting it just right and the Ikea effect makes for a pretty rewarding result (I also maintain a list of the available desktop tools you can use when on a wlroots based compositor for your DIY needs [8]). The vision for the future i
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s pre-configured DEs being offered on this base and it possibly even offering a lot of Sway's tiling features. [9] It still feels like the early days (for non-Gnome), but with Nvidia driver 470 & accelerated XWayland coming up, the Vulkan efforts, Electron (finally) and Wine making the switch I feel fairly confident saying that 2021 is shaping up to be the year of the Wayland desktop. Free of screen tearing and X-related worries since 2020 :-) [0]: https://wayfire.org/ [1]: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar [2]: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wf-shell [3]: https://github.com/DorianRudolph/sirula [4]: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep [5]: https://github.com/emersion/grim [6]: https://github.com/emersion/mako [7]: My not-completely-but-fairly Wayfire config https://gist.github.com/solarkraft/f46421295b8c211b2eb56b3ac... [8]: https://github.com/solarkraft/awesome-wlroots [9]: https://github.com/Javyre/swayfire
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