Wayland bars

• Bars & panels

Bars

Waybar

Much better than swaybar !

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Usage

Restart waybar:

systemctl --user restart waybar.service

Modules

Overview:

• Waybar wiki: Modules
• Waybar wiki: 3rd-party modules

Modules to try:

• waybar-issues
  • Get your open github/gitlab issues in your waybar
  • AUR package
• waybar-eyes
  • help you blinking eyes and move, take a break
  • AUR package

Issues

• Warning and Gtk-Critical messages from waybar
• Waybar/GTK apps take a long time to start

Swaybar

Swaybar Issues

I tried again with sway 1.1rc1 (2019-05), and swaybar is still not working for any of the tray icons except for nextcloud. Waybar is the way to go!

Tray protocols

There are 3 different tray icons protocols:

• Xembed (i.e. nm-applet): not supported Support for legacy Xembed will come later
• StatusNotifierItem / SNI: supported
• DBus: Still not supported Tray D-Bus Menu #6249
• Assigned workspace doesn't indicate in red when a new app creates it

swaybar tray context menu is not shown