waybar-wlr-taskbar - Man Page

The taskbar module displays the currently open applications. This module requires a compositor that implements the foreign-toplevel-manager interface.

Addressed by wlr/taskbar

all-outputs:
typeof: bool
default: false
If set to false applications on the waybar's current output will be shown. Otherwise, all applications are shown.

format:
typeof: string
default: {icon}
The format, how information should be displayed.

icon-theme:
typeof: array|string
The names of the icon-themes that should be used to find an icon. The list will be traversed from left to right. If omitted, the system default will be used.

icon-size:
typeof: integer
default: 16
The size of the icon.

markup:
typeof: bool
default: false
If set to true, pango markup will be accepted in format and tooltip-format.

tooltip:
typeof: bool
default: true
If set to false no tooltip will be shown.

tooltip-format:
typeof: string
default: {title}
The format, how information in the tooltip should be displayed.

active-first:
typeof: bool
default: false
If set to true, always reorder the tasks in the taskbar so that the currently active one is first. Otherwise don't reorder.

sort-by-app-id:
typeof: bool
default: false
If set to true, group tasks by their app_id. Cannot be used with 'active-first'.

on-click:
typeof: string
The action which should be triggered when clicking on the application button with the left mouse button.

on-click-middle:
typeof: string
The action which should be triggered when clicking on the application button with the middle mouse button.

on-click-right:
typeof: string
The action which should be triggered when clicking on the application button with the right mouse button.

on-update:
typeof: string
Command to execute when the module is updated.

ignore-list:
typeof: array
List of app_id/titles to be invisible.

app_ids-mapping:
typeof: object
Dictionary of app_id to be replaced with

rewrite:
typeof: object
Rules to rewrite the module format output. See rewrite rules.

{icon}: The icon of the application.

{name}: The application name as in desktop file if appropriate desktop files are found, otherwise same as {app_id}

{title}: The title of the application.

{app_id}: The app_id (== application name) of the application.

{state}: The state (minimized, maximized, active, fullscreen) of the application.

{short_state}: The state (minimize == m, maximized == M, active == A, fullscreen == F) represented as one character of the application.

activate: Bring the application into foreground.

minimize: Toggle application's minimized state.

minimize-raise: Bring the application into foreground or toggle its minimized state.

maximize: Toggle application's maximized state.

fullscreen: Toggle application's fullscreen state.

close: Close the application.

rewrite is an object where keys are regular expressions and values are rewrite rules if the expression matches. Rules may contain references to captures of the expression.

Regular expression and replacement follow ECMA-script rules.

If no expression matches, the format output is left unchanged.

Invalid expressions (e.g., mismatched parentheses) are skipped.

  "wlr/taskbar": {
  	"format": "{icon}",
  	"icon-size": 14,
  	"icon-theme": "Numix-Circle",
  	"tooltip-format": "{title}",
  	"on-click": "activate",
  	"on-click-middle": "close",
  	"ignore-list": [
  	    "Alacritty"
  	],
  	"app_ids-mapping": {
  		"firefoxdeveloperedition": "firefox-developer-edition"
  	},
  	"rewrite": {
  		"Firefox Web Browser": "Firefox",
  		"Foot Server": "Terminal"
  	}
  }

• #taskbar
• #taskbar button
• #taskbar button.maximized
• #taskbar button.minimized
• #taskbar button.active
• #taskbar button.fullscreen

waybar(5).