When setting up Sway as your Wayland compositor, you might want to organize your Waybar configuration in a non-standard location — for example, keeping a dedicated ~/.config/waybar/sway/ directory to separate your Sway-specific bar configuration from others. This seemingly simple task comes with a couple of subtle pitfalls worth knowing about. The ~ Expansion Problem The […]
Up to now, I have shown how to get started with Sway with the initial configurations and some other configurations. Now, I’ll show how to install another status bar in Sway: Waybar (which is more powerful than the default Sway bar). Again, I’m going to do that for Arch Linux. As in the previous posts, […]
Waybar has a dedicated module for Hyprland workspaces: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Hyprland#workspaces. One of its most fantastic features is the possibility of representing the application windows in each workspace. For example, here I have the workspaces with the following application windows: Kate (text editor) and terminal (Alacritty) Dolphin (file manager) A Firefox window and a Firefox window on […]
Up to now, I have shown how to get started with Hyprland with the initial configurations. Now, I’ll show how to install the mainstream status bar in Hyprland: Waybar. Again, I’m going to do that for Arch Linux. As in the previous posts, I will NOT focus on the look and feel configuration. Before continuing, […]