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

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2018-10-25 · latest 2025-07-17

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  1. That's a niche within a niche, I know, but for those using Waybar ( https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/ ), I've built wttrbar ( https://github.com/bjesus/wttrbar/ ) - it uses Wttr.in to display a nice detailed weather widget in your bar.
  2. …with pipewire to sort out screensharing at the start, don't remember that too well though... [0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar [1] https://github.com/artizirk/wdisplays [2] https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard [3]…
    comment by mijoharas · 2022-03-21 · in Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing
  3. …desktop. Free of screen tearing and X-related worries since 2020 :-) [0]: https://wayfire.org/ [1]: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar [2]: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wf-shell [3]: https://github.com/DorianRudolph/sirula [4]:…
    comment by solarkraft · 2021-03-10 · in Guide: Full Wayland Setup for Linux
  4. …out Waybar [0], it got tray support merged today, with a fix for Electron apps coming soon [1]. [0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar [1] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/57
    comment by jeremejevs · 2018-10-25 · in Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights