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| weight | title |
|---|---|
| 2 | Status bars |
Waybar
Waybar is a GTK status bar made specifically for wlroots compositors and supports Hyprland by default. To use it, it's recommended to use your distro's package.
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
hyprland/workspaces.
For more info regarding configuration, see The Waybar Wiki.
How to launch
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.
Waybar popups render behind the windows
In ~/.config/waybar/config, make sure that you have the layer configuration
set to top and not bottom.
Active workspace doesn't show up
Replace #workspaces button.focused with #workspaces button.active in
~/.config/waybar/style.css.
Scrolling through workspaces
Since 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:
"hyprland/workspaces": {
"format": "{icon}",
"on-scroll-up": "hyprctl dispatch workspace e+1",
"on-scroll-down": "hyprctl dispatch workspace e-1"
}
Clicking on a workspace icon does not work!
On the hyprland/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 swaymsg, and thus it is required
to edit this function to make it work with hyprctl.
Window title is missing
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
},
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. It's also highly recommended to read through the Configuration options.
{{< callout >}}
Read the Wayland section carefully before asking why your bar doesn't work.
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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.
~/.config/eww.yuck
...
(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}")
)
)
)
)
)
)
...
~/.config/eww/scripts/change-active-workspace
#!/usr/bin/env 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 $target
fi
~/.config/eww/scripts/get-active-workspace
#!/usr/bin/env bash
hyprctl monitors -j | jq '.[] | select(.focused) | .activeWorkspace.id'
socat -u UNIX-CONNECT:/tmp/hypr/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock - |
stdbuf -o0 awk -F '>>|,' -e '/^workspace>>/ {print $2}' -e '/^focusedmon>>/ {print $3}'
~/.config/eww/scripts/get-workspaces
#!/usr/bin/env bash
spaces (){
WORKSPACE_WINDOWS=$(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/$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE/.socket2.sock - | while read -r line; do
spaces
done
Active window title widget
This widget simply displays the title of the active window. It requires awk, stdbuf, socat, and jq.
~/.config/eww/eww.yuck
...
(deflisten window :initial "..." "sh ~/.config/eww/scripts/get-window-title")
(defwidget window_w []
(box
(label :text "${window}"
)
)
...
~/.config/eww/scripts/get-window-title
#!/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}'
Hybrid
Like Waybar, Hybrid is a GTK status bar mainly focused on wlroots compositors.
You can install it by installing hybrid-bar from the AUR.
Configuration
The configuration is done through JSON, more information is available here.
How to launch
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
Blur
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"
}
}