zebar Alternatives

zebar is described as 'Zebar is a tool for creating customizable and cross-platform taskbars, desktop widgets, and popups' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to zebar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, GTK and FreeBSD apps. The best zebar alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like zebar are Quickshell, YASB Reborn, Ewwii and fabric (Desktop Widgets System).

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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.

    61 Eww alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

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

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

    • Eww is Free and Open Sourcezebar is also Free and Open Source
    • Eww is Customizablezebar is not according to our users
  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.

    22 Quickshell alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  3. YASB Reborn icon
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    A highly configurable Windows status bar written in Python.

    28 YASB Reborn alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • YASB Reborn is the most popular Windows alternative to zebar.

    • YASB Reborn is Free and Open Sourcezebar is also Free and Open Source
  4. Ewwii icon
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    Ewwii is a flexible, resource-efficient, and scriptable widget system that integrates seamlessly with any programming language, letting developers build powerful interfaces quickly.

    19 Ewwii alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Rust
    • Linux
    • GTK
    • Wayland
    • Nix Package Manager
     
  5. AGS icon
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    A framework for crafting Wayland Desktop Shells.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GTK
    • Typescript
    • Wayland
     
  6.  2 likes
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    Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    • Rust
    • GTK
     
  7.  1 like
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    Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
     
  8. 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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
     
  9. 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.

    23 xfce-panel alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  10. 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
     
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