Status Bars
Waybar is a GTK status bar made specifically for wlroots compositors.
To use it, it’s recommended to use your distro’s package by searching waybar-hyprland.
To compile manually:
Clone the source, cd into it, then do:
sed -i -e '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
sudo ninja -C build install
If you want to use the workspaces module, first, copy the configuration files from
/etc/xdg/waybar/ into ~/.config/waybar/. Then, in ~/.config/waybar/config replace
all the references to sway/workspaces with wlr/workspaces.
For more info regarding configuration, see The Waybar Wiki.
After getting everything set up, you might want to check if Waybar is configured to your liking. To launch it, simply type waybar into your terminal.
If you would like waybar to launch alongside hyprland, you can do this by adding a line to your hyprland configuration that reads exec-once=waybar
In ~/.config/waybar/config, make sure that you have the layer configuration
set to top and not bottom.
Replace #workspaces button.focused with #workspaces button.active in ~/.config/waybar/style.css.
Since there a lot of configuration options from sway/workspaces are missing, you
should deduce some of them by yourself. In the case of scrolling, it should look like this:
"wlr/workspaces": {
"format": "{icon}",
"on-scroll-up": "hyprctl dispatch workspace e+1",
"on-scroll-down": "hyprctl dispatch workspace e-1"
}
On the wlr/workspaces module, add "on-click": "activate". That’s the purpose of
the sed command used before building Waybar: the default way to select a workspace by
clicking uses the swaymsg’s way, and thus it is required to edit
this function to make it work with hyprctl.
Follow the above instructions to make sure everything is working.
The prefix for the window module that provides the title is hyprland not wlr.
In your waybar config, insert this module:
"modules-center": ["hyprland/window"],
If you are using a multiple monitors, you may want to also insert this module configuration:
"hyprland/window": {
"max-length": 200,
"separate-outputs": true
},
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.
After you’ve successfully installed Eww, you can move onto configuring it. There are a few examples listed in the Readme. It’s also highly recommended to read through the Configuration options.
Read the Wayland section carefully before asking why your bar doesn’t work.
Here are some example widgets that might be useful for Hyprland:
Workspaces widget
This widget displays a list of workspaces 1-10. Each workspace can be clicked on to jump to it, and scrolling over the widget cycles through them. It supports different styles for the current workspace, occupied workspaces, and empty workspaces. It requires bash, awk, stdbuf, grep, seq, socat, jq, and Python 3.
...
(deflisten workspaces :initial "[]" "bash ~/.config/eww/scripts/get-workspaces")
(deflisten current_workspace :initial "1" "bash ~/.config/eww/scripts/get-active-workspace")
(defwidget workspaces []
(eventbox :onscroll "bash ~/.config/eww/scripts/change-active-workspace {} ${current_workspace}" :class "workspaces-widget"
(box :space-evenly true
(label :text "${workspaces}${current_workspace}" :visible false)
(for workspace in workspaces
(eventbox :onclick "hyprctl dispatch workspace ${workspace.id}"
(box :class "workspace-entry ${workspace.id == current_workspace ? "current" : ""} ${workspace.windows > 0 ? "occupied" : "empty"}"
(label :text "${workspace.id}")
)
)
)
)
)
)
...
#! /bin/bash
function clamp {
min=$1
max=$2
val=$3
python -c "print(max($min, min($val, $max)))"
}
direction=$1
current=$2
if test "$direction" = "down"
then
target=$(clamp 1 10 $(($current+1)))
echo "jumping to $target"
hyprctl dispatch workspace $target
elif test "$direction" = "up"
then
target=$(clamp 1 10 $(($current-1)))
echo "jumping to $target"
hyprctl dispatch workspace $target
fi
#!/usr/bin/env bash
hyprctl monitors -j | jq '.[] | select(.focused) | .activeWorkspace.id'
socat -u UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock - |
stdbuf -o0 awk -F '>>|,' -e '/^workspace>>/ {print $2}' -e '/^focusedmon>>/ {print $3}'
#!/bin/bash
spaces (){
WORKSPACE_WINDOWS=$(hyprctl workspaces -j | jq 'map({key: .id | tostring, value: .windows}) | from_entries')
seq 1 10 | jq --argjson windows "${WORKSPACE_WINDOWS}" --slurp -Mc 'map(tostring) | map({id: ., windows: ($windows[.]//0)})'
}
spaces
socat -u UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock - | while read -r line; do
spaces
done
Active window title widget
This widget simply displays the title of the active window. It requires awk, stdbuf, socat, and jq.
...
(deflisten window :initial "..." "sh ~/.config/eww/scripts/get-window-title")
(defwidget window_w []
(box
(label :text "${window}"
)
)
...
#!/bin/sh
hyprctl activewindow -j | jq --raw-output .title
socat -u UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock - | stdbuf -o0 awk -F '>>|,' '/^activewindow>>/{print $3}'
Like Waybar, Hybrid is a GTK status bar mainly focused for wlroots compositors.
You can install it from the AUR by the name hybrid-bar.
The configuration is done through JSON, more information is available here.
After configuring HybridBar, you can launch it by typing hybrid-bar into your terminal to try it out.
It is also possible to set it to launch at start, to do this you can add a line to your hyprland configuration that reads exec-once=hybrid-bar
To activate blur, set blurls=NAMESPACE in your hyprland configuration, where NAMESPACE is the gtk-layer-shell namespace of your HybridBar. The default namespace is gtk-layer-shell and can be changed in the HybridBar configuration at
{
"hybrid" {
"namespace": "namespace name"
}
}