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Wingpanel

Stylish top panel that holds indicators and spawns an application launcher

From elementary·Updated June 2, 2026·View on GitHub·

The extensible top panel for Pantheon. Wingpanel is an empty container that accepts indicators as extensions, including the applications menu. Individual indicators are hosted in their own repositories [here](https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Awingpanel+org%3Aelementary&type=Repositories). The project is written primarily in Vala, distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 license, first published in 2017. Key topics include: gmodule, gtk, gtk4, hacktoberfest, meson.

Latest release: 8.0.4wingpanel 8.0.4 Released
December 3, 2025View Changelog →

Wingpanel

The extensible top panel for Pantheon. Wingpanel is an empty container that accepts indicators as extensions, including the applications menu. Individual indicators are hosted in their own repositories here.

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Building and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

  • libgala-dev >= 8.3.0
  • libgee-0.8-dev
  • libglib2.0-dev
  • libgranite-7-dev >= 7.6.0
  • libgtk-4-dev
  • meson
  • libmutter-10-dev >= 10
  • valac

Run meson to configure the build environment and then ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use ninja install then execute with io.elementary.wingpanel

sudo ninja install
io.elementary.wingpanel

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