rwaybar

A taskbar for Wayland written in Rust. Works on any compositor supporting the layer_shell protocol (sway, most wlroots window managers, kwin).

Available Modules

• Clock
• Custom scripts
• Disk (filesystem) free
• File reader (for showing battery, temperature, load average, etc.)
• MPRIS-compliant media player support
• PulseAudio volume controller
• Sway (workspaces, binding mode)
• Tray

See the configuration documentation for details.

Other Features

• Clicks can execute custom scripts or provide input to existing ones
• Support for showing meters () and alerts.
• Regular expressions
• Simple expression evaluation
• Config reload on SIGHUP

Building

cargo build --release
cp doc/rwaybar.toml ~/.config/
./target/release/rwaybar

Samples

These two samples are using the same configuration, only the background color differs. I like a transparent background on my taskbar, but I also configure my desktop background to be a slideshow. This means that I need the bar to be readable regardless of the color of the background, which was done in this example by using text-outline. The tray needs a solid background because some icons (kdeconnect, steam) aren't otherwise visible on light backgrounds.

Note: these images were captured on a scaled (HiDPI) output, which is why they appear double the size defined in the sample bar configuration.