POLYBAR
Polybar is 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 huge amount of shell scripting knowledge.
Polybar uses modules and scripts to display the given information, it makes a more than substantial replacement for conky as a system monitor. Some of the modules or services included with Polybar so far:
- Window title
- Systray icons
- 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...
Dependencies for Polybar:
A compiler with C++14 support (clang-3.4+, gcc-5.1+).
- cairo
- libxcb
- python2
- xcb-proto
- xcb-util-image
- xcb-util-wm
Optional dependencies for extended module support:
- alsa-lib required by
internal/volume - 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.
RUNNING POLYBAR:
See the wiki for details on how to run polybar.
IMPORTANT LINKS:
Github: https://github.com/jaagr/polybar