wayle
Wayland Elements - A compositor agnostic shell with extensive customization
wayle-rs
Wayle
A Wayland desktop shell with the bar, notifications, OSD, wallpaper, and device controls built in. Written in Rust with GTK4 and Relm4.
Configure it in config.toml, through the wayle-settings GUI, or with the wayle config CLI.
Documentation
Full guides, reference, and walkthroughs are at wayle.app.
- Getting started - Installation instructions
- Editing config - File layout, live reload, imports, CLI editing
- Bars and layouts - Per monitor layouts, groups, classes
- Themes - Color tokens, theme files
- Custom icons - Installing icons, icon sources
- Custom modules - Shell-backed bar modules
- CLI - Every subcommand
- Config reference - Full config documentation
Install
Arch Linux binary:
yay -S wayle-bin
Arch (from source)
Install Rust via rustup, then the system libraries:
sudo pacman -S --needed git gtk4 gtk4-layer-shell gtksourceview5 \ libpulse fftw libpipewire systemd-libs clang base-devel
Runtime daemons for the battery, bluetooth, network, power, and audio modules (skip any you don't need):
sudo pacman -S --needed bluez bluez-utils networkmanager upower \ power-profiles-daemon pipewire wireplumber pipewire-pulse sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth NetworkManager upower power-profiles-daemon
Debian / Ubuntu
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not package libgtk4-layer-shell-dev. Use Ubuntu 25.04+ or Debian 13 (trixie).
Install Rust via rustup, then the system libraries:
sudo apt install git pkg-config cmake libgtk-4-dev libgtk4-layer-shell-dev \ libgtksourceview-5-dev libpulse-dev libfftw3-dev libpipewire-0.3-dev \ libudev-dev clang build-essential
Runtime daemons:
sudo apt install dbus-user-session bluez network-manager \ upower power-profiles-daemon pipewire-pulse wireplumber sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth NetworkManager upower power-profiles-daemon
Fedora
Requires Fedora 42 or later.
Install Rust via rustup, then the system libraries:
sudo dnf install git cmake pkgconf-pkg-config gtk4-devel gtk4-layer-shell-devel \ gtksourceview5-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel fftw-devel pipewire-devel \ systemd-devel clang gcc
Fedora Workstation already ships the runtime daemons. Minimal and Server installs need:
sudo dnf install pipewire-pulseaudio wireplumber NetworkManager bluez upower \ power-profiles-daemon sudo systemctl enable --now bluetooth NetworkManager upower power-profiles-daemon
Build and launch:
git clone https://github.com/wayle-rs/wayle cd wayle cargo install --path wayle cargo install --path crates/wayle-settings wayle icons setup wayle panel start
On a different distro? See wayle.app/guide/getting-started for the library-version reference.
Configuration
The config file is at ~/.config/wayle/config.toml. Changes reload on save:
[bar] location = "top" scale = 1.25 [[bar.layout]] monitor = "*" left = ["dashboard"] center = ["clock"] right = ["volume", "network", "bluetooth", "battery"] [modules.clock] format = "%H:%M"
Every field is documented at wayle.app/config.
Requirements
A Wayland compositor that implements the wlr-layer-shell protocol. Compositor-specific modules currently target Hyprland, Niri and Mango; Sway support is in planned soon.
Credits
Logo by @M70v.
License
MIT
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