bare

A lightweight vertical bar for Wayland compositors.

About

bare is a vertical bar focused on maximizing useful screen space and minimizing system resource usage.

It can be compared to the likes of swaybar or i3bar with a few key differences:

1. Vertical layout.
2. Built-in set of blocks: no dependency on i3status.
3. Reliance on Wayland protocols: the bar does not connect to compositor-specific IPC sockets.

Due to the vertical layout, each block is expected to be 1-3 character long. This is suitable for time, date, or various percentage blocks.

Required Protocols

The compositor must support the following protocols:

• ext-workspace-v1
• wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1

You can follow the links to check yours.

Building

Dependencies:

• Rust (edition 2024)
• make
• scdoc (optional, for man pages)

Run make.