Polybar

Documentation Installation Support Donate. Polybar aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars for their desktop environment, polybar, without the need of having a black belt polybar shell scripting. The main purpose of Polybar is to help users create awesome status bars.

Polybar's powerful yet simple DSL allows for extensive customization while remaining relatively easy to write and understand. Date and Time Display. Keyboard Layout and Indicator Status. Backlight Level Display. Volume Controls. Network Connection Details. User-defined Menu Tree.

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It aims to be easily customizable, utilising many modules which enable a wide range of editable functionality, such as displaying workspaces, the date, or system volume. Polybar is especially useful for window managers that have a limited or non-existent status bar, such as awesome or i3. Polybar can also be used with desktop environments like Plasma. Install the polybar package. The development version is polybar-git AUR. See polybar --help for a list of options to run it manually. However, you will probably want to run Polybar with your window manager's bootstrap routine. See Running with a window manager. To execute this script by your window manager on startup, see Autostarting On window manager startup. If you wish to have your bar duplicated across multiple monitors, you need to launch multiple bars. Contents move to sidebar hide.

If you are using Manjaroyou can install polybar to get the polybar stable release using sudo pacman -S polybar. Read our contributing guidelines for how to get started with contributing to polybar, polybar.

Polybar is a fast and easy-to-use status bar. It allows building customizable status bars for various desktop environments. Currently, bspwm and i3wm are supported off the shelf. This file demonstrates different configuration options, but is not a out of the box working configuration. Users need to assemble a working configuration themselves. This declares a new bar called "mybar" , and identifies which modules are being used and instructs Polybar to create a systray for hosting applets.

Polybar is a fast and easy-to-use status bar. It allows building customizable status bars for various desktop environments. Currently, bspwm and i3wm are supported off the shelf. This file demonstrates different configuration options, but is not a out of the box working configuration. Users need to assemble a working configuration themselves. This declares a new bar called "mybar" , and identifies which modules are being used and instructs Polybar to create a systray for hosting applets. The different modules i3, lan, wlan, filesystem, cpu, and date , need to be defined further on in the configuration file, see below. The optional section [colors] makes it easier to use colors in the different modules.

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Make sure you read the Configuration wiki page for the basic syntax for writing config files. The look of a module is primarily decided by its "format". The module generally chooses a format to be displayed depending on its current state. For example, the mpd module defines the following formats that will be used depending on connection state. Formats contain labels , progress bars , ramps , and animations. These can be arranged in the format by surrounding the name of the label, progress bar, etc. Tokens can be used in many labels to display dynamic values set by the module.

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Otherwise you have to explicitly specify bar name. Polybar can replace i3bar. Note that the colors section cannot be reused here. Sponsor this project. The optional section [colors] makes it easier to use colors in the different modules. A fast and easy-to-use status bar polybar. Dealing with XRandR 1. Comment out the following section that starts i3bar , and add a statement to launch Polybar:. Inter-Process Messaging. Last commit date. All Contributors. The config file requires a bar section for each bar you want to define. We list some of the more prominent ones here. Override monitor. Launching the bar in your wm's bootstrap routine.

Over the last 5 months 22 of you contributed to polybar and have made changes that are now in this latest release. Altogether 95 files have been changed, totaling in added and deleted lines. We fixed 9 bugs that we know of.

History 2, Commits. Note: If you have already created your own config in your home directory, polybar will load that. The different modules i3, lan, wlan, filesystem, cpu, and date , need to be defined further on in the configuration file, see below. Some of the services included so far:. Read View source View history. See the wiki for details on how to run and configure polybar. Notifications Fork Star To allow other windows to be placed above the bar, or to avoid having the bar visible when in fullscreen mode, you need to use the following two parameters. View all files. Polybar is especially useful for window managers that have a limited or non-existent status bar, such as awesome or i3. A fast and easy-to-use status bar polybar. Note that it will tell the window manager to back off so no area will be reserved, etc.