rootbar Alternatives

rootbar is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 25 alternatives to rootbar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, GTK and FreeBSD apps. The best rootbar alternative is wayle, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like rootbar are YASB Reborn, Eww, Quickshell and Ewwii.

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  1. W

    Waybar

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    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

    25 Waybar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Sway
    • Wayland
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    • European Union flagEU
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    nwg-panel

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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
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    • European Union flagEU
    nwg-panel screenshot 1
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    slstatus

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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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  5. Polybar icon

    Polybar

     2 likes

    Status bar for Unix-like systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • X11
    Polybar screenshot 1
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  6. ADeskBar icon

    ADeskBar

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    ADeskBar screenshot 1
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  8. B

    BMPanel

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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
    BMPanel screenshot 1
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  9. L

    lemonbar

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • openSUSE
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  10. X

    xmobar

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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Haskell
    • FreeBSD
    • openSUSE
    • Gentoo
    • X11
    • Wayland
    xmobar screenshot 1
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  11. I

    i3status-rust

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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

    Platforms

    • i3
    • Linux
    i3status-rust screenshot 1
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  12. D

    dwlb

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    Feature-Complete Bar for DWL.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
    • Global
    dwlb screenshot 1
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    wf-shell

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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 (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux
    wf-shell screenshot 1
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  14. S

    sfwbar

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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
    sfwbar screenshot 1
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