Workspace-specific taskbar

[ATM-Jahid]

Does anybody use a taskbar that groups tasks according to workspaces?

I was trying to achieve this using waybar. However, the wlr/taskbar module does not have that ability (Waybar#1278).

Would it be possible to create a module like that for Hyprland (something like hyprland/ws-taskbar)?

[vaxerski]

You'd have to script your own I think.

[Person1873]

I'm working on a script for this, only in the early stages, but should have something soon (TM)
I'll share what i have so far though

https://github.com/Person1873/hypr-taskbar

#!/bin/bash
#script depends on below packages
#hyperland (duh)
#waybar (double duh)
#jq
#ripgrep (can be substituted for normal grep)

WORKSPACE=$(
	hyprctl activewindow |
	rg workspace |
	awk '{print $2}');

MONITOR=$(
	hyprctl activewindow |
	rg monitor |
	awk '{print $2}');

echo workspace: $WORKSPACE;
echo monitor: $MONITOR;

hyprctl clients -j |
jq -r --arg WORKSPACE "$WORKSPACE" 'map(select(.workspace.id == ($WORKSPACE|tonumber)))';

[Person1873]

I've hit a dead-end on this approach.
I will actually need to patch waybar directly, however there is some promise here for simply showing the currently active window.

[yavko]

Ironbar has support for this with Hyprland out of box https://github.com/JakeStanger/ironbar

[ATM-Jahid]

Nice bar! I see that there are two related modules: Launches and Workspaces. However, I don't see the option to group programs according to workspaces. Am I missing something here?

[yavko]

Nice bar! I see that there are two related modules: Launches and Workspaces. However, I don't see the option to group programs according to workspaces. Am I missing something here?

I'm not entirely sure if this is supported actually, I misread the issue, sorry.

[Person1873]

It would appear that the best solution for now is to either not use waybar for listing windows (only for a status bar) and use rofi/wofi/dmenu/fzf etc as a switcher.
there are a few compatible scripts available here
https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/113ofeq/script_with_rofi_to_see_open_apps_and_switch_to/
it would be possible to filter this by workspace using the script i posted earlier but with some modifications

[Azarattum]

Also looking for this. Would be really nice to have workspaces and tasks as a single widget (where windows are grouped by workspace and clicking the icon brings you to that workspace and focuses the window). Do any workarounds exist currently? It's been a year since last comment here...

[ATM-Jahid]

I tried to make my bar with Qt. However, I gave up because there are decade-old bugs in Qt causing flickers during window resize events.

This was in December when I had some free time. If I try to make one again, I'll probably go with Flutter since they implemented the layer shell protocol.

FlafyDev has a working bar here. You can see the demo in this Reddit post.

[yavko]

I tried to make my bar with Qt. However, I gave up because there are decade-old bugs in Qt causing flickers during window resize events.

This was in December when I had some free time. If I try to make one again, I'll probably go with Flutter since they implemented the layer shell protocol.

FlafyDev has a working bar here. You can see the demo in this Reddit post.

Try quickshell, it allows you to build a shell using qml, and works really well

[ATM-Jahid]

Try quickshell, it allows you to build a shell using qml, and works really well

The flickering problem during resize is inherent to QML. How is quickshell gonna solve that?

[yavko]

Try quickshell, it allows you to build a shell using qml, and works really well

The flickering problem during resize is inherent to QML. How is quickshell gonna solve that?

Idk I've never experienced it

[NikkSaan]

nwg-panel supports grouping windows by workspace.

[fdecarpentier]

I think it's possible out of the box with waybar. See here https://www.lorenzobettini.it/2024/08/waybar-workspaces-in-hyprland/#google_vignette

[ATM-Jahid]

I do use waybar in that way. Here's my config. What doesn't work is focusing on a particular window or moving it to a different workspace by clicking. I'm fine with my keyboard shortcuts though. I just wanted to recreate the functionality of my old bspwm+tint2 setup.

[ArielBaron]

probably already said but there is built in taskbar module for waybar: for example:
"hyprland/workspaces": {
"format": "{icon}: {windows}",
"format-window-separator": " | ",
"workspace-taskbar": {
"enable": true,
"update-active-window": true,
"format": "{icon} {title:.22}",
"icon-size": 18,
"on-click-window": "${SCRIPTS}/focus-window.sh {address} {button}"
}
},

[Finalet]

If you want to display app icons, it was impossible out of the box, even with regular "custom/..." modules. So, I vibe coded my own module in C using the CFFI module.

Check it out here: hypr-ws-apps

In short, you can create a config and specify from which workspace to display apps. Either provide a workspace index (number) or name (string).

{
  "modules-center": ["cffi/hypr-ws-apps"],
  "cffi/hypr-ws-apps": {
    "module_path": "/home/<user>/.config/waybar/cffi/libhypr_ws_apps.so",
    "workspace": "1",
    "icon_size": 16,
    "spacing": 8,
    "max_icons": 12,
    "show_empty": false,
    "tooltip": true
  }
}

You can download my .so file and plug it into your CFFI module to play around.