wapanel
Desktop-dedicated wayland bar for wayfire and other wlroots based compositors. Mir compatible. (by Firstbober)
gBar
Blazingly fast status bar written with GTK (by scorpion-26)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wapanel
Posts with mentions or reviews of wapanel.
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and similar projects.
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Recommendations for a KDE style taskbar?
not KDE like, but Xfce like https://github.com/Firstbober/wapanel
gBar
Posts with mentions or reviews of gBar.
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and similar projects.
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flake help! basic flake
as a noob I set up my system without flakes (configuration.nix) but gBar is only as flake available. I guess this particular flake isn't hard to configure but I don't get it.
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I can't wrap my head around how to import and use a flake.nix file in my home.nix file
Now, I would like to use gBar in my Hyprland environment (https://github.com/scorpion-26/gBar). In that repository, it is described to:
- Status bars?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wapanel and gBar you can also consider the following projects:
hyprpaper - Hyprpaper is a blazing fast wayland wallpaper utility with IPC controls.
HybridBar - A status bar focused on wlroots Wayland compositors
Waybar - Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
im-emoji-picker - emoji picker compatible with Linux systems using either XServer or Wayland with either Fcitx5 or IBus
hyprpicker - A wlroots-compatible Wayland color picker that does not suck.
ivi-homescreen - Embedded Flutter runtime targeting Embedded Linux with Wayland
shell - :shell: Convergent shell for desktops, phones and tables built with QtQuick, Wayland and Material Design
Louvre - C++ library for building Wayland compositors.