# Alexays/Waybar

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:

Repository: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/waybar
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: wayland, wlroots, sway, bar, statusbar, gtk, i3status
Last push: 2026-08-20T11:41:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 45, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2947, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": 208, "gap_med": 141.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11855, forks 1145 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:50.294971+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, developer-tools, monitoring
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools, operating-systems
- platform: -
- tags: wayland, statusbar, sway, hyprland, wlroots, gtk, customization, system-monitoring, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- Alexays/Waybar (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.294971+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:15.825171+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.294971+00:00, sha f3d053e9cb77)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.