2026-09-30

Waybar is the bar

The Sway session in the live ISO now boots with Waybar instead of the stock bar: workspace pills in the chimera palette, a clock that knows what weekday it is, and the four logo colors running along the bottom edge of the bar.

Sound came along for the ride. The volume module crashed on first boot because nothing in the session was starting PipeWire — the session now launches pipewire, wireplumber, and pipewire-pulse before Waybar, so volume control works out of the box.

fastfetch got the Horizon mark as ANSI art while we were at it. It used to show a generic Tux because it had never heard of this distro.