Waybar broke after adding a wallpaper to a theme, reverting the file didn't fix it.

[vincentcomfy]

I know, I'm here a lot. I'm sorry.

Waybar started throwing errors after I followed the advice in this thread where I tried to specify a directory for where themes could pull wallpapers from. Waybar immediately disappeared and after trying to start it manually in the terminal, I would get

❯ waybar
[2024-09-22 22:24:19.439] [info] Using configuration file /home/vincent/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
[2024-09-22 22:24:19.440] [info] Unable to receive desktop appearance: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
[2024-09-22 22:24:19.440] [info] Using CSS file /home/vincent/.config/waybar/style.css
[2024-09-22 22:24:19.454] [warning] module backlight: Disabling module "backlight", No backlight found
[2024-09-22 22:24:19.456] [warning] No batteries.
[2024-09-22 22:24:19.492] [info] Bar configured (width: 3440, height: 29) for output: DP-2

** (waybar:6839): WARNING **: 22:24:19.493: Status Notifier Item with bus name ':1.33' and object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/udiskie' is already registered
![240923_22h41m30s_screenshot](https:/user-attachments/assets/f1f8485d-396a-4a82-ac45-574f46cd0954)

** (waybar:6839): WARNING **: 22:24:19.493: Status Notifier Item with bus name ':1.14' and object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet' is already registered

Waybar would still not show even despite running Hyde reload and rebooting my system.

I then somewhat fixed it by modifying the /home/vincent/.config/waybar/config.jsonc file (below) and removed an errant unclosed curly brace, but now my waybar doesn't have any of the customisation elements. It just shows my network information top right, clock in the middle and the open apps/windows in the top left. There are no theme/wallpaper buttons or the power button.

{ <-- I removed this.
    "clock": {
        "format": "{:%I:%M %p}",
        "rotate": "0",
        "format-alt": "{:%R 󰃭 %d·%m·%y}",
        "tooltip-format": "<span>{calendar}</span>",
        "calendar": {
            "mode": "month",
            "mode-mon-col": 3,
            "on-scroll": 1,
            "on-click-right": "mode",
            "format": {
                "months": "<span color='#ffead3'><b>{}</b></span>",
                "weekdays": "<span color='#ffcc66'><b>{}</b></span>",
                "today": "<span color='#ff6699'><b>{}</b></span>"
            }
        },
        "actions": {
            "on-click-right": "mode",
            "on-click-forward": "tz_up",
            "on-click-backward": "tz_down",
            "on-scroll-up": "shift_up",
            "on-scroll-down": "shift_down"
        }
    } 
}

How do I go about fixing this properly? Picture I think is attached for reference. The issue is that it is technically working, but it doesn't look or behave like it used to and it bothers me. Shutting down or rebooting now requires me to use the terminal which is a little irritating.

[vincentcomfy]

So I looked at past threads, either I misunderstood the wallpaper thread or the way wallpapers are managed may have changed, but according to this it looks like we aren't supposed to modify the .jsonc file?

I tried following changing the waybar layout per this thread, but it unfortunately didn't fix it (in fact, it made waybar disappear, again).

[vincentcomfy]

export reload_flag=1 && wbarconfgen zsh: command not found: wbarconfgen

my bad please add .sh. It should be wbarconfgen.sh

❯ export reload_flag=1 && wbarconfgen.sh
waybar: no process found

If I try and start waybar using "waybar" in the terminal:

❯ waybar
[2024-09-24 03:53:30.195] [info] Using configuration file /home/vincent/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
[2024-09-24 03:53:30.195] [error] Error parsing JSON: * Line 68, Column 1
  Missing '}' or object member name

Same issue as what I mentioned above where there's an unclosed squiggly brace.
Removing it and running waybar again:

❯ waybar
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.057] [info] Using configuration file /home/vincent/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.058] [info] Unable to receive desktop appearance: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.Settings” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.058] [info] Using CSS file /home/vincent/.config/waybar/style.css
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.072] [warning] module backlight: Disabling module "backlight", No backlight found
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.075] [warning] No batteries.

** (waybar:53117): WARNING **: 03:54:49.125: Status Notifier Item with bus name ':1.41' and object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/udiskie' is already registered

** (waybar:53117): WARNING **: 03:54:49.125: Status Notifier Item with bus name ':1.15' and object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet' is already registered
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.139] [warning] Requested width: 29 is less than the minimum width: 56 required by the modules
[2024-09-24 03:54:49.139] [info] Bar configured (width: 56, height: 1440) for output: DP-2

** (waybar:53117): WARNING **: 03:54:49.161: Status Notifier Item with bus name ':1.41' and object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/udiskie' is already registered

** (waybar:53117): WARNING **: 03:54:49.161: Status Notifier Item with bus name ':1.15' and object path '/org/ayatana/NotificationItem/nm_applet' is already registered

[kRHYME7]

Have you tried toggling the a different waybar layout. You can check the keybindings for that

[vincentcomfy]

Have you tried toggling the a different waybar layout. You can check the keybindings for that

Yeah, unfortunately toggling the waybar layout is what made it go from incorrect to missing altogether. I mentioned it in a prior comment. Is there any way I can build from source or copy whatever the stock files are from github? It'd probably be a lot easier for me to go back to a known working configuration (make a backup!) and try the wallpaper again rather than try and undo whatever it is that I've broken.

[kRHYME7]

You can use our CLI here.

Hyde check Config You'll see the diff of the source and your local.

[vincentcomfy]

Thank you, so much. As always you managed to solve my issue.

I promise I'll make backups before I start trying to break things again in the future.