rootbar
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.
rootbar Alternatives & Competitors
The best rootbar alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
We have listed more than 10 alternatives to rootbar. You can find them below. The top competitors are: Quickshell, ironbar, and Yambar. Apart from the top ones, people also compare rootbar with lemonbar, nwg-panel, and Polybar.
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/quickshell-alternatives
A Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, targeting Wayland and X11.
Key Quickshell features:
Ease of Use Customization Integration Performance
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/ironbar-alternatives
Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.
Key ironbar features:
Lightweight Customizable Rust-based Open Source
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Key Usejarvis features:
Workflows Awareness Computer control
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/yambar-alternatives
Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.
Key Yambar features:
Customizability Lightweight Extensibility Open Source
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/nwg-panel-alternatives
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
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/xfce-panel-alternatives
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
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/slstatus-alternatives
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
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/polybar-alternatives
Status bar for Unix-like systems.
Key Polybar features:
Highly Customizable Lightweight Modular Design Script Support
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/waybar-alternatives
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: - GitHub - Alexays/Waybar: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Key Waybar features:
Highly Customizable Support for Multiple Modules Supports Wayland Compositors Active Development
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/adeskbar-alternatives
a lightweight application launcher for Openbox, written in Python and GTK.
Key ADeskBar features:
Customizability Resource Efficiency Plugin Support Open Source
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/bmpanel-alternatives
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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/xmobar-alternatives
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.
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/sfwbar-alternatives
S* Floating Window Bar. Contribute to LBCrion/sfwbar development by creating an account on GitHub.
Key sfwbar features:
Lightweight Customizability Simplicity Open Source
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/wf-shell-alternatives
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
