Sidewing - a xbar style top bar for elementaryOS

I was looking to monitor developer related metrics when I noticed that there's no bitbar / xbar for Linux! In the age of AI-assisted engineering, that's no longer a massive time commitment, so I built one.

Sidewing is a GTK4 desktop bar for elementary OS-style multi-monitor setups. It runs local executable plugins, parses xbar-style output, and renders the result in a slim bar window on a selected display.

Current target:

elementary OS 8 / Linux desktop environments with X11

GTK4 + Vala

local, unsandboxed script plugins

Sidewing discovers and runs plugins, schedules refreshes from xbar-style filenames, renders a translucent bar, and opens per-plugin popover menus with a built-in variables editor. See Current Limitations for scope boundaries.

More information on the tools page