Waybar config

A personal Waybar status bar for Hyprland on Arch, themed Catppuccin Mocha. Paired with swaync as the notification center (replacing dunst).

Built against waybar-git (AUR), not the official waybar package. The setup script installs it — and yay too, if you have no AUR helper. Note that waybar-git rebuilds on every system update, which takes a few minutes.

Installation

For Arch (or an Arch derivative).

• First, get the config (back up any existing ~/.config/waybar) -

$ git clone https://github.com/darciarch/Waybar-Config ~/.config/waybar

• Then, install packages, system services and swaync/dunst setup -

$ ~/.config/waybar/scripts/first_time_setup.sh

• Finally, start the bar -

$ ~/.config/waybar/scripts/launch.sh

Autostart / Hyprland setup

Add to ~/.config/hypr/hyprland.lua:

-- Autostart — swaync must come before waybar
hl.exec_once("swaync &")
hl.exec_once("waybar &")
hl.exec_once("python ~/.config/waybar/scripts/workspace_bar_daemon.py &")

-- Toggle the bar on the current workspace
hl.bind("SUPER", "A", hl.dsp.exec("~/.config/waybar/scripts/toggle_workspace_bar.sh"))

Log out and back in.

Python scripts use the standard library only — no pip install required.

Restarting the bar

After editing the config, restart the bar:

$ ~/.config/waybar/scripts/launch.sh

Kills a running instance if there is one, otherwise starts a new one.

Layout

• config.jsonc — module placement and per-module config (JSONC: comments OK, trailing commas not)
• style.css — GTK3 CSS (not web CSS: no flexbox, no gap)
• scripts/ — the custom/* module backends and helpers
• ~/.config/swaync/{config.json,style.css} — notification center, themed to match the bar

Modules

Position	Modules
left	clock, battery, window (app name + icon)
center	workspaces
right	backlight, volume (wireplumber), uptime, wifi, power-profile, sysinfo, swaync

• clock — H:M, calendar in the tooltip
• custom/window — the focused app's name (not its title), prefixed with the app's real icon when one resolves from its .desktop entry, otherwise a 󰖯 glyph (scripts/window.py). The bar background turns transparent when the active workspace has no windows
• battery — icon + %, color-only warning/critical (no blink)
• backlight — icon + %
• volume — scroll to change, left click mutes output, right click opens pavucontrol. A mic-off glyph appears after the % when the microphone is muted
• custom/uptime — shows uptime -p, doubles as a stopwatch (left click start/pause, right click reset), state in the tooltip (scripts/uptime.sh + scripts/stopwatch.sh)
• custom/wifi — WiFi signal + Bluetooth merged into one tooltip (scripts/wifi_bt.sh)
• power-profiles-daemon — click cycles the power profile
• custom/sysinfo — CPU + RAM in one icon, exact numbers in the tooltip. Clicking it closes every Hyprland window, then relaunches a fixed app set onto workspaces 1/3/4/5 (scripts/sysinfo.sh + scripts/focus.sh)
• custom/swaync — notification counter, click toggles the panel, right click toggles DND

Mic mute is not on the bar. Toggle it with XF86AudioMicMute / F9 — the volume capsule shows the muted state.

Per-workspace bar hiding

SUPER + A toggles the bar for the current workspace only. It marks the workspace in ~/.cache/waybar/hidden_workspaces, then kills and relaunches Waybar (scripts/toggle_workspace_bar.sh).

scripts/workspace_bar_daemon.py runs in the background, listens on Hyprland's socket2, and relaunches Waybar on every workspace switch to match that file.

If the bar won't come up, check ~/.cache/waybar/hidden_workspaces — the workspace may be marked hidden.

Dependencies

All installed by first_time_setup.sh. This list is just what each one does.

Tool	Used by
jq	all custom/* JSON modules
nmcli + bluetoothctl	custom/wifi
swaync-client	custom/swaync, notifications
powerprofilesctl	power profile module
wpctl (WirePlumber)	volume and mute
JetBrainsMono Nerd Font	glyphs in the bar

waybar-git builds with Meson auto-features, so a module is silently dropped if its library is missing at build time. If the power profile icon does not show up, rebuild waybar-git after the packages above are installed.