My VibeBar

Header image source: Colorful bus Pakistani via Wikimedia Commons.

Bright, bus-art Waybar for niri on Wayland.

What is here

• Loud per-chip gradients with compact, tooltip-heavy modules.
• Custom helpers for CPU temperature smoothing, disk I/O, VPN device display, media metadata, external IP, and Niri keyboard layout state.
• A screenshot helper so bar changes can be checked against the live UI instead of config-only guesses.

Requirements

• waybar
• niri
• python3
• playerctl for the media chip
• curl for the external IP chip
• wf-recorder and ffmpeg for capture-waybar.sh
• wl-gammarelay-rs and optionally wl-gammarelay-applet
• swayosd-client if you want layout-switch OSD

Install

This repo is meant to live at ~/.config/waybar.

mkdir -p ~/.config/waybar
cp -r . ~/.config/waybar/
chmod +x ~/.config/waybar/*.py ~/.config/waybar/*.sh
pkill -SIGUSR2 waybar

Notes

• The config is not pinned to one monitor. If you want to pin Waybar to a display, add "output": "YOUR-OUTPUT" at the top of config.jsonc.
• The layout OSD follows the focused output by default. To pin it, export VIBEBAR_OSD_MONITOR=HDMI-A-1 or another output name before launching Waybar.
• capture-waybar.sh uses the configured output when present, otherwise WAYBAR_CAPTURE_OUTPUT, otherwise the focused output.
• Network chips use generic interface globs: en*, wl*, and lo.

Screenshot Workflow

./capture-waybar.sh assets/waybar.png

That keeps the README screenshot aligned with the live bar.