#1136724 waybar: The hyprland/workspaces module click action will not work with hyprland 0.55+ lua config

Package:
waybar
Source:
waybar
Description:
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
Submitter:
Chow Loong Jin
Date:
2026-05-15 09:47:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1136724#5
Date:
2026-05-15 09:45:31 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Hyprland 0.55 has been released with lua support[1], and will soon be uploaded into Debian
after the hyprutils migration[2][3] is complete.

When hyprland 0.55 starts up with a lua config file, it stops responding
to old-style `hyprctl dispatch` commands on its IPC socket, which
waybar's `hyprland/workspaces` module relies on for workspace switching,
so clicking on a workspace to switch to it will no longer work.

This has been fixed upstream in PR #5013[4], specifically in commit
e17c0d9f0a73acc370df60ec8c532b1ed2385c73.

I've backported the commit onto version 0.15.0-1 and attached it here.
I've also test-built a waybar package locally and can confirm that it
fixes the issue with hyprland 0.55.1 running in lua mode.

[1] https://hypr.land/news/26_lua/
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1136342
[3] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-hyprutils.html
[4] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/5013