# Riftbar

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Riftbar is a **Waybar-like status bar** writen in **Rust** designed to be fast, safe and modern. It uses **GTK4** for GUI and gtk4-layer-shell protocol making it suitable for Wayland compositors like Sway, Hyprland, and Wayfire.
 
## Features

- Async updates, GUI stays responsive
- Modular design for CPU, network, battery, clock, and more
- Lightweight and fast, leveraging Rust’s safety
- IPC calls for managing bars.
- Multiple bar support.
- Scss and css styling support.

## Installation

> [!WARNING]
> Compositors without wlr-layer-shell protocol isn't supported. 
> Essipecially Gnome isn't supported because of that.

Currently only packages avaiable on AUR.

You can always find binary (x86_64 ELF) files in [releases](https://github.com/BinaryHarbinger/riftbar/releases) page.

## Planned features/fixes:
- [ ] Support for power profiles daemon
- [ ] Create CI jobs for builds including arm.
- [X] Add IPC commands for revealers, opening widgets and reloading style.
- [ ] Add slider/audio widget.
- [ ] Add Gnome like dock module.

## Compiling

Dependecies: `gtk4 gtk4-layer-shell wayland`

```bash
git clone https://github.com/BinaryHarbinger/riftbar.git
cd riftbar
cargo build --release
```

Run the executable:
```bash
./target/release/riftbar
```

(Note: Ensure you are running under a Wayland compositor that supports layer-shell, e.g., Hyprland or Sway.)

## Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
To get started:

```bash
git clone https://github.com/BinaryHarbinger/riftbar.git
cd riftbar
cargo check
```


Please open pull requests against the main branch and follow Rust formatting conventions (cargo fmt).

## License

Licensed under the GPLv3 License.
Copyright © BinaryHarbinger.