Yambar Alternatives

Yambar is described as 'Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Yambar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, FreeBSD and X11 apps. The best Yambar alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Yambar are Quickshell, zebar, ironbar and nwg-panel.

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    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
     
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    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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    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
     
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    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
     
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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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    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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    Feature-Complete Bar for DWL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
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