Hyprland Waybar Questions

[kontax]

Hey @maximbaz,

I've a couple of questions on waybar within your setup if you are able to help?

I finally took the plunge into hyprland, but I'm not sure how you launch waybar, as you removed the systemd service when migrating from sway, and I can't see an exec-once command in your config. How do you start it up?

And secondly, I couldn't get the stock waybar package to work, and had to go with waybar-hyprland. This differs from what you had in your package list however, so I'm just wondering whether you are having no issues with the stock package?

Thanks in advance.

[maximbaz]

Hello! I'm always happy to help out 😉

I still launch waybar using systemd service, it is simply being packaged now as part of waybar package itself (installed at /usr/lib/systemd/user/waybar.service, you still enable and start it as a user service).

My package list is slightly outdated, sorry about it. You are completely right in going for the waybar-hyprland. I'm happy to tell you though that there is now a ticket to subscribe to, where the discussion has started about implementing the proper protocol, so that this custom patch for waybar would no longer be needed.

Until then, consider using a better patch for waybar, it fixes some issues when using advanced features, like html tags for coloring your workspaces.

[kontax]

Ah brilliant, thanks so much for the replies that's very helpful!

[maximbaz]

In case you haven't seen, the fix has been implemented in Hyprland, so you need to get the latest hyprland-git, and waybar-git will work without any patches, if you build with -Dexperimental=true 😉

[kontax]

I just saw that, thanks for the heads up!