ADeskBar is described as 'A lightweight application launcher for Openbox, written in Python and GTK' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to ADeskBar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, GTK and FreeBSD apps. The best ADeskBar alternative is Cairo-Dock, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ADeskBar are Eww, Quickshell, YASB Reborn and Ewwii.
SFWBar (S* Floating Window Bar) is a flexible taskbar application for wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind. Originally developed for Sway, SFWBar will work with any wayland compositor supporting layer shell protocol, the taskbar and window switcher...
The motivation for creation of oatbar was to extend on the idea of Unix-way for toolbars. Inspired by i3bar which consumes a JSON stream that controls it's appearance, we take this idea much further without becoming a DIY widget toolkit.
i3status-rs is a feature-rich and resource-friendly replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust. It provides a way to display "blocks" of system information (time, battery status, volume, etc) on bars that support the i3bar protocol.
Xmobar is a minimalistic status bar. It was originally designed and implemented to work with xmonad, but it is actually usable with any window manager in X11 and also (via its text output mode) Wayland.
