Root Bar is a bar for wlroots based wayland compositors such as sway and was designed to address the lack of good bars for wayland.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
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BMPanel Alternatives
BMPanel is described as '(bitmap panel) is a lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for X11 Window System, which contains a desktop switcher, taskbar, system tray and clock. The application is inspired by simplicity of fspanel. BMPanel has a modern look and feel, while keeping itself tiny and small' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to BMPanel for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Wayland, Mac and BSD apps. The best BMPanel alternative is RocketDock, which is free. Other great apps like BMPanel are Cairo-Dock, Eww, Docky and Quickshell.
Alternatives list
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Haskell
- FreeBSD
- openSUSE
- Gentoo
- X11
- Wayland
wf-shell is a repository which contains the various components needed to built a fully functional DE based around wayfire. Currently it has only a GTK-based panel and background client.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Wayland
- Linux
43 CoolBarz alternativesCoolbarz is a very efficient app launcher or desktop toolbar for easy access to your most commonly used programs or folders. Working and tested on Windows 10.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
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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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- i3
- Linux
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Born as a fork and C++ port of tint2, tint3 retains backwards compatibility and provides a cleaner code base and better stability.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
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.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- BSD
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...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Linux
- Wayland
