A fast and easy-to-use status bar
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 bars
for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.
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:
See the wiki for more details.
If you find yourself stuck, have a look at our Support page for resources where you can find help.
Read our contributing 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 the image on the
right to see a more complete
list of available polybar packages.
If you are using Debian (bullseye/11/stable) or later, you can install polybar
using sudo apt install polybar. Newer releases of polybar are sometimes provided in the backports
repository for stable users, you need to enable backports and then install usingsudo apt -t bullseye-backports install polybar.
If you are using Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) or later, you can install polybar
using sudo apt install polybar.
If you are using Arch Linux, you can install
polybar to get the
latest stable release using sudo pacman -S polybar. The latest unstable
changes are also available in thepolybar-git package in the
AUR.
If you are using Manjaro, you can install polybar to get the latest stable release using sudo pacman -S polybar.
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 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 Leap polybar is available from the
X11:Utilities repository or openSUSE Tumbleweed polybar is available from the official repositories and can be installed via zypper.
The package is available for openSUSE Leap 15.5 and above.
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.
If you are using Fedora, you can install polybar using sudo dnf install polybar.
If you can’t find your distro here, you will have to build from source.
See the wiki for details on how to run and configure polybar.
Want to get in touch?
gitter.im/polybar/polybarr/polybar#polybar IRC channel on the irc.libera.chat:6697 serverPolybar accepts donations through open collective.
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Polybar is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.
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