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 on the at the bottom of this man page.

BAR CONFIGURATION¶

layer
typeof: string
default: bottom
Decide if the bar is displayed in front of the windows or behind them.

output
typeof: string|array
Specifies on which screen this bar will be displayed.

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.

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

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
	}
}

SUPPORTED MODULES¶