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A fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.

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Polybar aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status barsfor their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.

• Introduction
• Getting Help
• Contributing
• Getting started
  • Installation
  • First Steps
• Community
• Contributors
• Donations
  • Sponsors
  • Backers
• License
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The main purpose ofPolybar 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 forMPD usinglibmpdclient
• ALSA andPulseAudio volume controls
• Workspace and desktop panel forbspwm andi3
• Workspace module forEWMH 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.

If you find yourself stuck, have a look at ourSupport page for resources where you can find help.

Read ourcontributing guidelines for how to get started with contributing to polybar.

Polybar is already available in the package manager for many repositories.We list some of the more prominent ones here.Also click theimage on theright to see a more completelist of available polybar packages.

If you are usingDebian (bullseye/11/stable) or later, you can installpolybarusingsudo apt install polybar. Newer releases of polybar are sometimes provided in thebackportsrepository for stable users, you need to enablebackports and then install usingsudo apt -t bullseye-backports install polybar.

If you are usingUbuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) or later, you can install polybarusingsudo apt install polybar.

If you are usingArch Linux, you can installpolybar to get thelatest stable release usingsudo pacman -S polybar. The latest unstablechanges are also available in thepolybar-git package in theAUR.

If you are usingManjaro, you can installpolybar to get the latest stable release usingsudo pacman -S polybar.

If you are usingVoid Linux, you can installpolybar usingxbps-install -S polybar.

If you are usingNixOS, polybar is available in both the stable and unstable channels and can be installed with the commandnix-env -iA nixos.polybar.

If you are usingSlackware, polybar is available from theSlackBuilds repository.

If you are usingSource Mage GNU/Linux, polybar spell is available in test grimoire and can be installed viacast polybar.

If you are usingopenSUSE Leap polybar is available from theX11:Utilities repository oropenSUSE Tumbleweedpolybar is available from the official repositories and can be installed viazypper.The package is available for openSUSE Leap 15.5 and above.

If you are usingFreeBSD,polybar can be installed usingpkg install polybar. Make sure you are using thelatest package branch.

If you are usingGentoo, both release and git-master versions are available in themain repository.

If you are usingFedora, you can installpolybar usingsudo dnf install polybar.

If you can't find your distro here, you will have tobuild from source.

See the wiki for details on how to run and configure polybar.

Want to get in touch?

• Visit ourDiscussion page
• Join our Gitter room atgitter.im/polybar/polybar
• We have our own subreddit atr/polybar
• Chat with us in the#polybar IRC channel on theirc.libera.chat:6697 server

• Patrick Ziegler@patrick96

• Michael Carlberg@jaagr

• @Lomadriel
• @NBonaparte
• Chase Geigle@skystrife

• @Tobaloidee

Polybar accepts donations throughopen collective.

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Polybar is licensed under the MIT license.See LICENSE for more information.

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