Yambar Alternatives

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

A Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, targeting Wayland and X11.

Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

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.

Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.

slstatus is a status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME or stdin to fill the status bar.

Status bar for Unix-like systems.

Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

a lightweight application launcher for Openbox, written in Python and GTK.

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.

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.

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.