mangowm

Recommended: mangobar

We recommend mangobar, a dedicated status bar for mangowm built on wlr-layer-shell. It integrates directly with mangowm over IPC, so it stays in sync with your tags, layouts and windows. It ships with built-in modules for workspaces, layout, window title, keymode, keyboard layout, CPU/memory, brightness, volume, clock, network, battery, system tray, and user-defined custom/<name> modules.

Installation

On Arch Linux, install the AUR package mangobar-git:

yay -S mangobar-git

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/mangowm/mangobar.git
cd mangobar
meson setup build -Dprefix=/usr
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Usage

Start mangobar in your mangowm configuration:

exec-once=mangobar

It reads its configuration from $MANGOBAR_CONFIG or ~/.config/mangobar/config.jsonc, and its styling from ~/.config/mangobar/style.css. See the mangobar repository for a complete reference and example configuration.

Waybar Module Configuration

`config.jsonc`

Add the following to your Waybar configuration:

{
  "modules-left": [
    "mango/workspaces",
    "mango/layout",
    "mango/window"
  ],
  "modules-right": [
    "mango/language",
    "mango/keymode",
  ],
  "mango/workspaces": {
      "format": "{icon}",
      "hide-empty": true,
      "on-click": "activate",
      "on-click-right": "toggle",
      "overview-label": "OVERVIEW",
  },
  "mango/keymode": {
  	"format": "{}",
  	// "format-default": " Default",
    // "format-test": " Test",
  },
  "mango/window": {
    "format": "{}",
	  "icon-size": 20
  },
  "mango/layout": {
      "format": "{}",
      // "format-S": "Scroller",
      // "format-T": "Tile",
  },
  "mango/language": {
  "format": "{short}",
  },
}

Styling Example

You can style the tags using standard CSS in style.css.

`style.css`

#workspaces {
  border-color: #c9b890;
  background: rgba(40, 40, 40, 0.76);
}

#workspaces button {
  background: none;
  color: #ddca9e;
}

#workspaces button.hidden {
  color: #9e906f;
  background-color: transparent;
}

#workspaces button.visible {
  color: #ddca9e;
}

#workspaces button:hover {
  color: #d79921;
}

#workspaces button.active {
  background-color: #ddca9e;
  color: #282828;
}

#workspaces button.urgent {
  background-color: #ef5e5e;
  color: #282828;
}

#workspaces button.overview {
  background-color: #ef5e5e;
  color: #282828;
}

#window {
  background-color: #CA9297;
  color: #282828;
}

window#waybar.empty #window {
    background: none;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}

#layout {
  background-color: #CA9297;
  color: #282828;
}

#language {
  background-color: #CA9297;
  color: #282828;
}

#keymode {
  background-color: #CA9297;
  color: #282828;
}

Complete Configuration Example

Tip: You can find a complete Waybar configuration for mangowm at waybar-config.

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