Waybar Alternatives

Waybar is described as 'Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Waybar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, FreeBSD and openSUSE apps. The best Waybar alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Waybar are Quickshell, zebar, ironbar and Yambar.

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  1. Eww icon
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    Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.

    56 Eww alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • Eww is the most popular Linux alternative to Waybar.

    • Eww is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Waybar.

    • Eww is Free and Open SourceWaybar is also Free and Open Source
  2. Quickshell icon
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    Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment.

    19 Quickshell alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. zebar icon
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    Zebar is a tool for creating customizable and cross-platform taskbars, desktop widgets, and popups.

    19 zebar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
    • zebar is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Waybar.

    • zebar is Free and Open SourceWaybar is also Free and Open Source
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    Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
    • GTK
     
  5.  1 like
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    Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  6. nwg-panel icon
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    Nwg-panel is a GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors. The panel is equipped with a graphical configuration program that frees the user from the need to manually edit configuration files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  7. xfce-panel icon
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    Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  8. slstatus icon
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    slstatus is a status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME or stdin to fill the status bar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  9. ADeskBar icon
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    a lightweight application launcher for Openbox, written in Python and GTK.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    BMPanel (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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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    lemonbar (formerly known as bar) is a lightweight statusbar based on XCB. Provides full UTF-8 support, basic formatting, RandR and Xinerama support and EWMH compliance without wasting your precious memory.

    19 lemonbar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • openSUSE
     
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