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Alexays/Waybar

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Alexays/Waybar · C++ · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

80/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 45
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 141.0
  • age_days: 2947
  • days_rel: 208
  • days_push: 13
  • n_releases_24m: 5

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

11855 stars · 1145 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Waybar is a highly customizable status bar for Wayland compositors, built with GTK and C++ for Sway and other wlroots-based compositors like Hyprland, River, and Niri. It provides modular widgets for system monitoring, connectivity, audio, and compositor integration, styled via CSS.

Use cases

  • customize a status bar for sway on wayland
  • show battery cpu and memory usage in a wayland panel
  • get workspace indicators for hyprland
  • display network and bluetooth status in a top bar
  • replace i3status on wayland with a configurable bar
  • style a desktop status bar with css

When to choose

  • you use Sway, Hyprland, River, Niri, or another wlroots-based Wayland compositor
  • you want a highly configurable, CSS-styled status bar with many built-in modules
  • you need deep compositor integration like workspaces, window titles, and input language

When to avoid

  • you are on X11 rather than Wayland
  • you want a zero-configuration bar that works out of the box
  • you use a desktop environment like GNOME or KDE that ships its own panel

Facets

application · maturity active

gui developer-tools monitoring desktop-applications developer-tools operating-systems wayland statusbar sway hyprland wlroots gtk customization system-monitoring linux desktop

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Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
Alexays/Waybarmain80

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