I am looking for a customizable status bar that works with wayland and qt based apps. I have looked at waybar, and most of the other ones I have tried are gtk based and don't quite look right. I have tried eww, ironbar, yambar, and waybar. Any help would be appreciated.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Sounds like what you're after is lxqt-panel. Problem is, it's not quite ready yet - things like positioning settings, taskbar and a few other plugins do not work, last I checked, but feel free to check it out.

Presently, the main issue is that Qt's layer-shell-qt isn't complete yet - without layer-shell support, certain key taskbar-y things wouldn't work, such as listing and management of active windows, menu popups, reserving the screen space etc. But I suspect it's inching pretty close to completion with the looming release of KDE 6.

For now, check out this page and keep an eye for updates to it: https://github.com/stefonarch/LXQt-Wayland-files/blob/main/lxqt-panel.md

In saying that, what's your issue exactly with Waybar? I use it on Wayfire and it works fine, and the taskbar plugin does display icons for Qt based apps.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks, and to answer your question. My personal preference is to have a unified framework, I now it is unnecessary but I like running as minimal packages as possible. I have done this pretty easily with GTK and was just looking into doing it with QT.

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