Bug: How to make winbar always visible?

[xuanhung1509]

I'm migrating from barbecue.nvim to use native lualine's winbar support. So far, I'm quite happy with it after integrating with 'nvim-navic". The only issue that annoys me is that the winbar line disappears if I open a window from a plugin (Lazy/Mason...), making the editor shift up one line.

https://github.com/nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim/assets/89293664/f3356836-9fae-4e23-ac76-80c4fab3c8b2

Self Checks

• [x] I'm using the latest lualine.
• [x] I didn't find the issue in existing issues or PRs.

How to reproduce the problem

• Add winbar component to lualine (see below config)
• Open Lazy/Mason/Telescope

Expected behaviour

Winbar line stays even if no content.

Actual behaviour

Winbar line disappears, making the editor shift up one line.

Minimal config to reproduce the issue

• Use kickstart.nvim as starter template

• Add the plugin:

  -- You can add your own plugins here or in other files in this directory!
  --  I promise not to create any merge conflicts in this directory :)
  --
  -- See the kickstart.nvim README for more information
  return {
  {
  'nvim-lualine/lualine.nvim',
  config = function()
    local lualine = require 'lualine'
  
    local function filepath()
      local path = vim.fn.expand '%'
      path = path:gsub('/', ' > ')
      return path
    end
  
    lualine.setup {
      winbar = {
        lualine_a = {
          { filepath },
        },
      },
    }
  end,
  event = 'VeryLazy',
  },
  }

Additional information

[shadmansaleh]

As you can see in the docs there are to configuration items winbar and inactive_winbar which sets winbar for active and inactive windows respectively.

because you never set inactive_winbar lualine doesn't show winbars on inactive_windows.

 lualine.setup {
        winbar = {
          lualine_a = {
            { filepath },
          },
        },
        inactive_winbar = {
          lualine_a = {
            { filepath },
          },
        },
      }

if you want just the line to be shown in in active window you can just put a whitespace component in inactive_winbar

   inactive_winbar = {
    lualine_a = {
      function() return " " end
    }
  },

[xuanhung1509]

Nice, I could not understand what the inactive_ does until now. Thank you!