{"slug": "waybar", "name": "Waybar", "category": "terminal", "category_name": "Terminal and shell", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 6, "warners": 0, "score": 2.291, "rising": 1.0, "first": "2026-01-30", "latest": "2026-08-28", "why": "I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Waybar", "waybar"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 791573968, "item_id": 49473373, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473373", "by": "ericd", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage", "excerpt": "I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage, with little color coded percentage bars for each. Super helpful, highly recommend it. Great idea on the hook alert. I feel like the advent of LLMs has made a super customizable OS like Linux so, so much better than the closed source alternatives, and so much better than they were before.", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "usage status bar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "ericd", "context": "Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473373", "date": "2026-08-28"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["status bar", "usage status bar", "task bar", "status bar module"], "compared": [{"slug": "quickshell", "name": "Quickshell", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "niri", "name": "niri", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "hyprland", "name": "Hyprland", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49467551", "title": "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668747", "title": "Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473845", "title": "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902416", "title": "Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500746", "title": "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820468", "title": "The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 791573968, "item_id": 49473373, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473373", "by": "ericd", "date": "2026-08-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage", "excerpt": "I have something like this persistent in my waybar, with session, weekly, and fable usage, with little color coded percentage bars for each. Super helpful, highly recommend it. Great idea on the hook alert. I feel like the advent of LLMs has made a super customizable OS like Linux so, so much better than the closed source alternatives, and so much better than they were before.", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "usage status bar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"}, {"id": 779215298, "item_id": 48700956, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700956", "by": "nickjj", "date": "2026-06-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "niri (Wayland), Waybar and a few other tools", "excerpt": "I run vanilla Arch with niri (Wayland), Waybar and a few other tools to create a desktop environment. I didn't do any special kernel or app specific tweaks for performance. The machine boots using 1.1 GB of memory and total disk space after installing a bunch of apps is ~10 GB. Browser, Docker, video editor, image editor, LibreOffice, OBS, VMs, a ton of CLI tools and everything you'd expect to have a fully working an", "context": "", "use_case": "status bar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide"}, {"id": 775610658, "item_id": 48475666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48475666", "by": "tskulbru", "date": "2026-06-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "on my Linux desktop setup using Hyprland and Waybar", "excerpt": "Im using https://github.com/mryll/claudebar myself on my Linux desktop setup using Hyprland and Waybar. Will try this one out on my laptop though!", "context": "", "use_case": "status bar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota"}, {"id": 766467969, "item_id": 47904248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904248", "by": "gverrilla", "date": "2026-04-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I also have a task bar that I can also click to navigate when I need (on waybar)", "excerpt": "I use hyprland. And I navigate with ALT+? commands for the main apps I use, and alt+tab strictly to go back to previous workspace. I also have a task bar that I can also click to navigate when I need (on waybar). I love it. I'm never in some intermediate state like a view of all my workspaces, or holding alt tab to choose some workspace - it's always a single hotkey stroke. I also have 3 special workspaces that use a", "context": "", "use_case": "task bar", "switched_from": "", "story": "Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)"}, {"id": 760113953, "item_id": 47507122, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507122", "by": "stdbrouw", "date": "2026-03-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use the script below as a custom waybar module", "excerpt": "It doesn't really need any config on most distros, no. That said, if you want it to behave at its best when OOM, it does help to tweak vm.swappiness, vm.watermark_scale_factor, vm.min_free_kbytes, vm.page-cluster and a couple of other parameters. See e.g. https://makedebianfunagainandlearnhowtodoothercoolstufftoo.computer/doku.php?id=start:memmanagement https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP7/html/SLES-all/cha-tun", "context": "", "use_case": "status bar module", "switched_from": "", "story": "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths"}, {"id": 749156306, "item_id": 46822269, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822269", "by": "abhinavk", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "First with waybar, now with Quickshell", "excerpt": "I have been using niri for almost an year now. First with waybar, now with Quickshell (which DankMaterialShell is baed upon). There are many other implementations of this paradigm if niri doesn't feel/work right to you. - PaperWM (for Gnome; the original) - mangowc (dwm rewrite but has a scrolling mode) - scroll (fork of sway) - papersway (based on sway) - hyperscrolling (hyprland plugin) - karousel (for KDE) - Paper", "context": "", "use_case": "status bar", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers"}]}