Overbar

A lightweight native Windows topbar and tiling window manager written in Rust.

(this is completely vibecoded i made this for myself lol)

Features

• native, event-driven Windows workspace manager
• dynamic workspaces, tiling, floating windows, workspace moves, focus, and pause mode
• native Windows acrylic blur
• live CPU/RAM/temperature (if supported), battery, storage, network, task, volume, and clock panels
• app launcher and indexed search
• cool topbar :3

Window-manager bindings

Binding	Action
Alt+1 … Alt+9	Focus workspace
Alt+Shift+1 … Alt+Shift+9	Move focused window to workspace
Alt+H/J/K/L or Alt+Arrow	Focus in a direction
Alt+Shift+H/J/K/L or Alt+Shift+Arrow	Move the focused window in the layout
Alt+U/P	Decrease / increase width by 2%
Alt+I/O	Decrease / increase height by 2%
Alt+R	Enter resize mode; use H/J/K/L or arrows, then Enter/Escape
Alt+V	Toggle horizontal / vertical tiling
Alt+Shift+Space	Cycle tiled / floating for the focused window
Alt+T	Set tiled: floating windows become tiled, tiled windows are retiled in place
Alt+F	Toggle fullscreen
Alt+M	Toggle minimized
Alt+Shift+Q	Close the focused window
Alt+A / Alt+S	Focus previous / next active workspace
Alt+D	Focus the previously active workspace
Alt+Shift+A/F/D/S	Move the active workspace to the left/right/up/down monitor
Alt+Shift+P	Pause / resume automatic tiling
Alt+Shift+W	Redraw the active workspace
Alt+Shift+R	Reload/redraw manager state
Alt+Shift+E	Exit Overbar and restore managed windows

The workspace buttons and tiling-direction icon expose the same actions through the bar.

Launcher commands

• Power/session: lock, sleep, hibernate, shutdown, restart, sign out, quit
• Folders: downloads, documents, desktop, pictures, screenshots, music, videos, startup, temp, appdata, localappdata, programdata, windows, system32, fonts, recycle bin, all apps
• Settings: bluetooth, wifi, network, display, sound, apps, updates, notifications, storage, personalization, privacy, power settings, default apps, date and time
• Web: prefix a query with ?, such as ? best mechanical keyboards; a web result also appears when no local results match

Warning

For those with a dedicated GPU make sure to enable discrete graphics for your entire system (do NOT just enable the GPU for Overbar in Windows graphics settings).

Run

cargo run --release

Overbar requests administrator elevation when it starts so its window manager can tile and focus elevated applications such as Task Manager. If the UAC prompt is declined, the bar continues to run but Windows will block control of elevated windows. The Window Manager Settings panel can create or refresh an Overbar Startup Scheduled Task that launches the current executable at sign-in with highest privileges, avoiding subsequent UAC prompts.

Overbar checks the repository's latest GitHub Release in the background. When a newer version is available, the Apps icon and panel show a yellow update marker. The update action downloads and verifies the release executable, replaces Overbar in its current folder, restarts it, and refreshes an existing startup task.

Build

cargo build --release