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waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. More information: <https://g

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Problem

How to use the waybar command: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. More information: <https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar>.

Solution

waybar — Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. More information: <https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar>.

Start waybar with the default configuration and stylesheet:

waybar

Use a different configuration file:

waybar {{[-c|--config]}} {{path/to/config.jsonc}}

Use a different stylesheet file:

waybar {{[-s|--style]}} {{path/to/stylesheet.css}}

Set the logging level:

waybar {{[-l|--log-level]}} {{trace|debug|info|warning|error|critical|off}}

Code Snippets

Start `waybar` with the default configuration and stylesheet

waybar

Use a different configuration file

waybar {{[-c|--config]}} {{path/to/config.jsonc}}

Use a different stylesheet file

waybar {{[-s|--style]}} {{path/to/stylesheet.css}}

Set the logging level

waybar {{[-l|--log-level]}} {{trace|debug|info|warning|error|critical|off}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/waybar

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