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NAME

waybar - menu property

OVERVIEW

Some modules support a 'menu', which allows to have a popup menu when a defined click is done over the module.

PROPERTIES

A module that implements a 'menu' needs 3 properties defined in its config :

menu:
typeof: string
Action that popups the menu. The possibles actions are :

Option Description
on-click When you left-click on the module
on-click-release When you release left button on the module
on-double-click When you double left click on the module
on-triple-click When you triple left click on the module
on-click-middle When you middle click on the module using mousewheel
on-click-middle-release When you release mousewheel button on the module
on-double-click-middle When you double middle click on the module
on-triple-click-middle When you triple middle click on the module
on-click-right When you right click on the module using
on-click-right-release When you release right button on the module
on-double-click-right When you double right click on the module
on-triple-click-right When you triple middle click on the module
on-click-backward When you click on the module using mouse backward button
on-click-backward-release When you release mouse backward button on the module
on-double-click-backward When you double click on the module using mouse backward button
on-triple-click-backward When you triple click on the module using mouse backawrd button
on-click-forward When you click on the module using mouse forward button
on-click-forward-release When you release mouse forward button on the module
on-double-click-forward When you double click on the module using mouse forward button
on-triple-click-forward When you triple click on the module using mouse forward button

menu-file:
typeof: string
Location of the menu descriptor file. There need to be an element of type

GtkMenu with id menu.

menu-actions:
typeof: array
The actions corresponding to the buttons of the menu. The identifiers of

each actions needs to exists as an id in the 'menu-file' for it to be linked properly.

MENU-FILE

The menu-file is an `.xml` file representing a GtkBuilder. Documentation for it can be found here : https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.Builder.html

Here, it needs to have an element of type GtkMenu with id "menu". Eeach actions in menu-actions are linked to elements in the menu-file file by the id of the elements.

EXAMPLE

Module config :

"custom/power": {
	"format" : "⏻ ",
		"tooltip": false,
		"menu": "on-click",
		"menu-file": "~/.config/waybar/power_menu.xml",
		"menu-actions": {
			"shutdown": "shutdown",
			"reboot": "reboot",
			"suspend": "systemctl suspend",
			"hibernate": "systemctl hibernate",
		},
},

~/.config/waybar/power_menu.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<interface>


  <object class="GtkMenu" id="menu">
	<child>
		<object class="GtkMenuItem" id="suspend">
			<property name="label">Suspend</property>


        </object>
	</child>
	<child>


        <object class="GtkMenuItem" id="hibernat">
			<property name="label">Hibernate</property>


        </object>
	</child>


    <child>


        <object class="GtkMenuItem" id="shutdown">
			<property name="label">Shutdown</property>


        </object>


    </child>


    <child>


      <object class="GtkSeparatorMenuItem" id="delimiter1"/>


    </child>


    <child>
		<object class="GtkMenuItem" id="reboot">
			<property name="label">Reboot</property>
		</object>


    </child>


  </object>
</interface>

STYLING MENUS

•
menu Style for the menu

•
menuitem Style for items in the menu

EXAMPLE:

menu {
	border-radius: 15px;
	background: #161320;
	color: #B5E8E0;
}
menuitem {
	border-radius: 15px;
}
2025-08-11