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A fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
Polybar aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting. Here are a few screenshots showing you what it can look like:
If you need help, check out the Support page.
Please report any issues or bugs you may find by creating an issue ticket here on GitHub.
Make sure you include steps on how to reproduce it. There's also an irc channel available at freenode, cleverly named #polybar.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The main purpose of Polybar is to help users create awesome status bars. It has built-in functionality to display information about the most commonly used services. Some of the services included so far:
- Systray icons
- Window title
- Playback controls and status display for MPD using libmpdclient
- ALSA volume controls
- Workspace and desktop panel for bspwm and i3
- Workspace module for EWMH compliant window managers
- Keyboard layout and indicator status
- CPU and memory load indicator
- Battery display
- Network connection details
- Backlight level
- Date and time label
- Time-based shell script execution
- Command output tailing
- User-defined menu tree
- Inter-process messaging
- And more...
See the wiki for more details.
Getting started
If you are using Arch Linux, you can install the AUR package polybar-git to get the latest version, or polybar for the latest stable release. If you create a package for any other distribution, please consider contributing the template.
If you are using Void Linux, you can install polybar using xbps-install -S polybar.
If you are using NixOS, polybar is available in both the stable and unstable channels and can be installed with the command nix-env -iA nixos.polybar.
If you are using Ubuntu, polybar is available from the GetDeb repository.
If you are using Slackware, polybar is available from the SlackBuilds repository.
If you are using Source Mage GNU/Linux, polybar spell is available in test grimoire and can be installed via cast polybar.
If you are using openSUSE, polybar is available from OBS repository. For now package is only for Tumbleweed.
If you are using FreeBSD, polybar can be installed using pkg install polybar. Make sure you are using the latest package branch.
If you are using Gentoo, both release and git-master versions are available in the main repository.
Dependencies
A compiler with C++14 support (clang-3.4+, gcc-5.1+).
- cairo
- libxcb
- python2
- xcb-proto
- xcb-util-image
- xcb-util-wm
- xcb-util-xrm
Optional dependencies:
- xcb-util-cursor required for the
cursor-clickandcursor-scrollsettings
Optional dependencies for extended module support:
- alsa-lib required by
internal/alsa - libpulse required by
internal/pulseaudio - i3-wm required by
internal/i3 - jsoncpp required by
internal/i3 - libmpdclient required by
internal/mpd - libcurl required by
internal/github - wireless_tools required by
internal/network
Find a more complete list on the dedicated wiki page.
Building from source
Please report any problems you run into when building the project.
$ git clone --branch 3.1.0 --recursive https://github.com/jaagr/polybar
$ mkdir polybar/build
$ cd polybar/build
$ cmake ..
$ sudo make install
There's also a helper script available in the root folder:
$ ./build.sh
Configuration
Details on how to setup and configure the bar and each module have been moved to the wiki.
Install the example configuration
$ make userconfig
Launch the example bar
$ polybar example
Running
See the wiki for details on how to run polybar.
Contributors
Owner
- Michael Carlberg @jaagr
Maintainers
- @NBonaparte
- Chase Geigle @skystrife
- Patrick Ziegler @patrick96
Logo Design by
All Contributors
License
Polybar is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.