yatbfw

Yes another task bar for Wayland.

This is a simple taskbar that can be used in wayland compositors that implements foreign-toplevel and layer-shell protocols. It can be configured with a simple settings file written in JSON.

Features

• Taskbar (focus on click; toggle maximize on second click; close on middleclick)
• Launchers on the left and right side
• Tooltips
• Icon theme setting
• Clock
• Style colors and size
• Top or bottom position

Building

Dependencies are:

• cmake
• C++17 compiler
• wayland-scanner++
• libcairo
• libRSVG
• jsoncpp

Archlinux

sudo pacman -S pkgconf waylandpp cairo librsvg wayland-protocols jsoncpp

Debian and debian-based

sudo apt install pkgconf wayland-scanner++ libjsoncpp-dev wayland-protocols waylandpp-dev librsvg2-dev

Fix for "fatal error:json/json.h: No such file or directory" create a symlink:

sudo ln -s /usr/include/jsoncpp/json/ /usr/include/json

Then run these comands:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

This will install in /usr/local. To install in /usr use cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr instead.

Then edit "~/.config/yatbfw.json" to configure your taskbar.

Settings

In the example folder you can find examples of how to configure it.