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Riftbar

Riftbar is a Waybar-like status bar writen in Rust designed to be fast, safe and modern. It uses GTK4 for GUI and gtk4-layer-shell protocol making it suitable for Wayland compositors like Sway, Hyprland, and Wayfire.

Features

• Async updates, GUI stays responsive
• Modular design for CPU, network, battery, clock, and more
• Lightweight and fast, leveraging Rust’s safety
• IPC calls for managing bars.
• Multiple bar support.
• Scss and css styling support.

Installation

Warning

Compositors without wlr-layer-shell protocol isn't supported. Essipecially Gnome isn't supported because of that.

Currently only packages avaiable on AUR.

You can always find binary (x86_64 ELF) files in releases page.

Planned features/fixes:

• Support for power profiles daemon
• Create CI jobs for builds including arm.
• Add IPC commands for revealers, opening widgets and reloading style.
• Add slider/audio widget.
• Add Gnome like dock module.

Compiling

Dependecies: gtk4 gtk4-layer-shell wayland

git clone https://github.com/BinaryHarbinger/riftbar.git
cd riftbar
cargo build --release

Run the executable:

./target/release/riftbar

(Note: Ensure you are running under a Wayland compositor that supports layer-shell, e.g., Hyprland or Sway.)

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To get started:

git clone https://github.com/BinaryHarbinger/riftbar.git
cd riftbar
cargo check

Please open pull requests against the main branch and follow Rust formatting conventions (cargo fmt).

License

Licensed under the GPLv3 License. Copyright © BinaryHarbinger.