NAME

waybar - configuration file

DESCRIPTION

The configuration uses the JSON file format and is named config.

Valid locations for this file are:

A good starting point is the default configuration found at https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/blob/master/resources/config Also, a minimal example configuration can be found at the bottom of this man page.

BAR CONFIGURATION

layer
typeof: string
default: bottom
Decide if the bar is displayed in front (top) of the windows or behind (bottom)

output
typeof: string|array
Specifies on which screen this bar will be displayed. Exclamation mark(!) can be used to exclude specific output.

position
typeof: string
default: top
Bar position, can be top, bottom, left, right.

height
typeof: integer
Height to be used by the bar if possible. Leave blank for a dynamic value.

width
typeof: integer
Width to be used by the bar if possible. Leave blank for a dynamic value.

modules-left
typeof: array
Modules that will be displayed on the left.

modules-center
typeof: array
Modules that will be displayed in the center.

modules-right
typeof: array

margin
typeof: string
Margins value using the CSS format without units.

margin-<top|left|bottom|right>
typeof: integer
Margins value without units.

spacing
typeof: integer
Size of gaps in between the different modules.

name
typeof: string
Optional name added as a CSS class, for styling multiple waybars.

mode
typeof: string
Selects one of the preconfigured display modes. This is an equivalent of the sway-bar(5) mode command and supports the same values: dock, hide, invisible, overlay.
Note: hide and invisible modes may be not as useful without Sway IPC.

start_hidden
typeof: bool
default: false
Option to start the bar hidden.

modifier-reset
typeof: string
default: press

exclusive
typeof: bool
default: true
Option to request an exclusive zone from the compositor. Disable this to allow drawing application windows underneath or on top of the bar.

fixed-center
typeof: bool
default: true

passthrough
typeof: bool
default: false
Option to pass any pointer events to the window under the bar.

gtk-layer-shell
typeof: bool
default: true
Option to disable the use of gtk-layer-shell for popups.

ipc
typeof: bool
default: false
Option to subscribe to the Sway IPC bar configuration and visibility events and control waybar with swaymsg bar commands.
Requires bar_id value from sway configuration to be either passed with the -b command line argument or specified with the id option.

id
typeof: string
bar_id for the Sway IPC. Use this if you need to override the value passed with the -b bar_id command line argument for the specific bar instance.

include
typeof: string|array
Paths to additional configuration files.

MODULE FORMAT

You can use PangoMarkupFormat (See https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html#PangoMarkupFormat).

e.g.

"format": "<span style="italic">{}</span>"

MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF A MODULE

If you want to have a second instance of a module, you can suffix it by a '#' and a custom name. For example, if you want a second battery module, you can add "battery#bat2" to your modules. To configure the newly added module, you then also add a module configuration with the same name.

This could then look something like this (this is an incomplete example):

"modules-right": ["battery", "battery#bat2"],
"battery": {
	"bat": "BAT1"
},
"battery#bat2": {
	"bat": "BAT2"
}

MINIMAL CONFIGURATION

A minimal config file could look like this:

{
	"layer": "top",
	"modules-left": ["sway/workspaces", "sway/mode"],
	"modules-center": ["sway/window"],
	"modules-right": ["battery", "clock"],
	"sway/window": {
		"max-length": 50
	},
	"battery": {
		"format": "{capacity}% {icon}",
		"format-icons": ["", "", "", "", ""]
	},
	"clock": {
		"format-alt": "{:%a, %d. %b  %H:%M}"
	}
}

MULTI OUTPUT CONFIGURATION

{
	"layer": "top",
	"output": "eDP-1",
	"modules-left": ["sway/workspaces", "sway/mode"],
	...
}

{
	"layer": "top",
	"output": ["eDP-1", "VGA"],
	"modules-left": ["sway/workspaces", "sway/mode"],
	...
}

[{
	"layer": "top",
	"output": "eDP-1",
	"modules-left": ["sway/workspaces", "sway/mode"],
	...
}, {
	"layer": "top",
	"output": "VGA",
	"modules-right": ["clock"],
	...
}]

{
	"clock": {
		"rotate": 90
	}
}

{
	"modules-right": ["group/hardware", "clock"],
	"group/hardware": {
		"orientation": "vertical",
		"modules": [
			"cpu",
			"memory",
			"battery"
		]
	},
	...
}

"group/power": {
    "orientation": "inherit",
    "drawer": {
        "transition-duration": 500,
        "children-class": "not-power",
        "transition-left-to-right": false,
    },
    "modules": [
        "custom/power", // First element is the "group leader" and won't ever be hidden
        "custom/quit",
        "custom/lock",
        "custom/reboot",
    ]
},

SUPPORTED MODULES

SEE ALSO

sway-output(5)