Waybar provides a customizable status bar for Wayland compositors such as Sway and wlroots-based environments.
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Ironbar is a customizable GTK4 status bar for Wayland, written in Rust.
About Iron Bar
Ironbar is a customizable GTK4 bar for Wayland compositors, written in Rust. It can be set up as a lightweight bar or as a fuller desktop panel.
It supports per-monitor layouts, CSS theming, popups, and modules, custom widgets, scripts and Lua-based dynamic content. It has first-class support for Sway and Hyprland and partial support for Niri, with hot-reloading for configuration and CSS.
Key features
- Themeable with hot-loaded CSS
- Popups for displaying rich content
- Modules integrating with native desktop libraries
- Custom widgets, scripts and dynamic content including Lua
- Single bar across monitors or unique bars per monitor
- Multiple config languages with hot-reloading
Best for: Wayland users on Sway or Hyprland who want a configurable GTK4 bar.
Good for
- Hot-loaded CSS and hot-reloading configuration
- Async design intended to keep bar running if a module blocks or crashes
- Installable from source or through package managers
Watch out for
- Partial support for Niri compared with Sway and Hyprland
- Built for Wayland compositors
Iron Bar at a glance
- Category
- Software & Utilities › Desktop Customization
- Type
- Open-source project
- Pricing
- Not confirmed. Check the site
- Open source
- Yes · Source code
- Language
- English
- Last checked
- Oct 6, 2026 · Online when checked
- Listed
- Oct 5, 2026
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