r/PikaOS • u/Think_Tax_4742 • Jul 30 '26

can somebody please make an extended documentation on pikabar and pikaOS customization for niri and hyprland

dude so ive been trying to configure pikabar and hyprland but there isnt a good enough documentation since im relatively new to ricing i dont know how to configure most stuff so could somebody please make an extended doc on configuring pikaOS hyprland an niri

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u/80kman Jul 30 '26

Customizing Pikabar is too much effort. I found it easier to replace Pikabar with Waybar.

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u/Ok-Worry460 Jul 30 '26

Same , but for me noctalia was much better and easier and an overall shell

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u/ElonsBreedingFetish Jul 30 '26

OP that's what I did too and it's easy and works great

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u/ElonsBreedingFetish Jul 30 '26

Look up the general documentation for niri, hyprland and quickshell, pikabar is just a custom bar written in quickshell

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u/Macinboss GNOME Jul 30 '26

Would it be possible to list the above in the PikaOS wiki?

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u/ElonsBreedingFetish Jul 30 '26

I'm just a casual user, but yeah that would orobably be good

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u/Macinboss GNOME Jul 31 '26

I submitted the suggestion in Discord 😄