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Status Bars

Launch your bar with exec-once=.

Waybar

Waybar is a GTK status bar made specifically for wlroots compositors.

To use it, it’s recommended to use the AUR package waybar-hyprland-git, or compile manually with the USE_EXPERIMENTAL flag enabled.

To compile manually:

Clone the source, cd into it, then do:

sed -i 's/zext_workspace_handle_v1_activate(workspace_handle_);/const std::string command = "hyprctl dispatch workspace " + name_;\n\tsystem(command.c_str());/g' src/modules/wlr/workspace_manager.cpp

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=plain --auto-features=enabled --wrap-mode=nodownload build
meson configure -Dexperimental=true build

and finally:

sudo ninja -C build install

If you want to use the workspaces module, it’s called wlr/workspaces.

For more info regarding configuration, see The Waybar Wiki.

Eww

In order to use Eww, you first have to install it, either using your distro’s package manager, by searching eww-wayland, or by manually compiling. In the latter case, you can follow the instructions.

Configuration

After you’ve successfully installed Eww, you can move onto configuring it. There are a few examples listed in the Readme. We highly recommend you also read through the Configuration options.

Read the Wayland section carefully before asking why your bar doesn’t work.