rootbar Alternatives & Competitors

Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.

Key Yambar features:

Customizability Lightweight Extensibility Open Source

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.

Key nwg-panel features:

Customizability Lightweight Wayland Support Active Development

Employee Monitoring Software with Screenshots, Internet, Activity and Time Tracking.

Key Monitask features:

Time Tracking Time Tracking Reports Timesheets Screen recording

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

Key xfce-panel features:

Lightweight Highly Configurable Plugin Support Stable and Reliable

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.

Key Oatbar features:

User-Friendly Interface Comprehensive Features Cross-Platform Compatibility Customization Options

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.

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

Key Quickshell features:

Ease of Use Customization Integration Performance

Open Source

Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

Key ironbar features:

Lightweight Customizable Rust-based Open Source

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.

Key wf-shell features:

Wayland Compositor Customizable Lightweight Modern Design

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

Key slstatus features:

Lightweight Customizable Integration with dwm Open Source

Status bar for Unix-like systems.

Key Polybar features:

Highly Customizable Lightweight Modular Design Script Support

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

Key ADeskBar features:

Customizability Resource Efficiency Plugin Support Open Source

BMPanel (bitmap panel) is a lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for X11 Window System, which...

Key BMPanel features:

Lightweight Configurable Open Source Simple Design

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Key The Ultimate SEO Prompt Collection features:

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