Polybar

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

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.

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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. This section uses the ramp option to graphically show the utilization per core, showing low utilization as green, mid utilization as orange and high utilization as red. Note that the colors section cannot be reused here. Polybar can replace i3bar. This requires configuring Polybar for use with i3, creating a Polybar launch script, and updating the i3 configuration to use Polybar.

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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.

The parameters on this page are using the default values unless stated otherwise. If the key is undefined commented out or its value is empty, it means there is no default value for the given parameter. The configuration uses the INI file format , the full specification can be found here. Note: References can only be used on their own. All undefined keys will be cloned.

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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.

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If you are using Slackware , polybar is available from the SlackBuilds repository. This config file should be usable out-of-the-box by simply running in your terminal:. The development version is polybar-git AUR. We list some of the more prominent ones here. Latest commit History 2, Commits. Currently, bspwm and i3wm are supported off the shelf. Override monitor. If you do not specify the name of the bar and your config file only contains a single bar, polybar will display that bar. User-defined Menu Tree. Some of the services included so far:. Home Jump to bottom. Users need to assemble a working configuration themselves. Read our contributing guidelines for how to get started with contributing to polybar.

Polybar's powerful yet simple DSL allows for extensive customization while remaining relatively easy to write and understand.

Latest commit History 2, Commits. You signed out in another tab or window. It is recommended to enable per package instead of globally. 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. Note that the colors section cannot be reused here. Keyboard Layout and Indicator Status. Read our contributing guidelines for how to get started with contributing to polybar. You signed in with another tab or window. If you are using Manjaro , you can install polybar to get the latest stable release using sudo pacman -S polybar. Folders and files Name Name Last commit message. Package information. This declares a new bar called "mybar" , and identifies which modules are being used and instructs Polybar to create a systray for hosting applets. Users need to assemble a working configuration themselves. Polybar accepts donations through open collective.