Description

Small program that allows various modes for waybar in Hyprland.

Warning

In order to work, it must follow these constrains: exactly 1 Waybar process must be running with only 1 Bar. And Waybar must have been launched providing full paths for its config file. (ie. waybar -c ~/waybar/myconfig)

Requirements

All deps except xmake are included with waybar.

xmake
waybar
g++    // C++ 17 or later
fmt     
jsoncpp 

Features

• autowaybar -m all: Will hide waybar in all monitors until your mouse reaches the top of any of the screens.
• autowaybar -m focused: Will hide waybar in the focused monitor only.

Build

In order to build it:

xmake

or manually:

g++ src/*.cpp src/*.hpp src/*.h -o autowaybar -lfmt -ljsoncpp -O3 -march=native

Run

Now you can run it by doing:

xmake run autowaybar arguments [args]

or you can install it to your path by doing:

xmake install --admin

Sample bind config for waybar & autowaybar in hyprland.conf

# waybar start OR restart 
bind=$mainMod, W, exec, if ! pgrep waybar; then waybar & else killall -SIGUSR2 waybar & fi
#autohide with autowaybar
bind=$mainMod, A, exec, if ! pgrep autowaybar; then autowaybar -m all & fi
bind=$mainMod SHIFT, A, exec, killall -9 autowaybar

Know your monitors and their names for multi-monitor

hyprctl monitors | grep Monitor
Monitor eDP-1 (ID 0):