Okay, I am super new to tiling windows managers, and let me just say - Sway made me an instant convert. I’m obsessed. But I still have no clue what I’m doing.

So I have been trying out every status bar I can to see what looks good, what feels good, and what has the best efficiency for some of my SUPER low-grade hardware.

This brings me to yambar. It is touted as the most resource efficient status bars, and because I only want to see a few things (battery, ram, cpu, volume, time/date), I figured it was a good fit. I downloaded and installed it (used AUR) and I had a few issues getting it installed, but eventually go there. (I should probably say right now that I’m also new to Arch. All my previous Linux experience has been Debian based.)

So now that yambar is installed, I snagged the example config.yaml and moved/renamed it to ~/.config/yambar/config.yaml. Now most of the previous status bars I’ve been trying required you to add/change something in the ~/.config/sway/config to make them go. usually in between some bar:{status_command }. So I went ahead and tried to add status_command /usr/bin/yambar in there, and I just got errors.

I’ve read the documentation on yambar’s codeberg like 100 times, and there isn’t anything in there about how to actually activate this darn bar. I’m guessing I’m missing something totally noob.

Help?

(ps- love the community. Subscribed immediately.)

  • Nimrod@lemm.eeOP
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    10 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply! (and for going out of your way to help). I renamed the YAML file, and tried to run it from the terminal and it threw some errors (missing dependencies for some of the content in that example YAML. I installed those dependencies just to see if it would show up, and it did! All the icons are broken (guessing that’s a font thing?) and a few of the bits/bobs aren’t working properly, but it runs!

    Thank you so much. I will now begin the fun task of tweaking (AKA breaking it, fixing it, and breaking it) until it fits my needs.

    It’s definitely not as pretty as bumblebee-status! But if it’s lighter on resources, than it’s a win. I guess I’ll have to test that somehow…