A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Linux
- Rust
- Fedora
- GTK
- Wayland


xmobar is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to xmobar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, Rust and GTK apps. The best xmobar alternative is wayle, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like xmobar are Eww, YASB Reborn, Ewwii and Quickshell.
A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.


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