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# Polybar
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[](https://travis-ci.org/jaagr/polybar)
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[](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/blob/master/LICENSE)
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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 bars
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for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.
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Heres a few screenshots showing you what it can look like:
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[](http://i.imgur.com/xvlw9iH.png)
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[](http://i.imgur.com/cYQOuRr.png)
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[](http://i.imgur.com/A6spiZZ.png)
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[](http://i.imgur.com/TY5a5r9.png)
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Please note that the project still is in early development, so please report any
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problems by [creating an issue ticket](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/new).
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## Table of Contents
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* [Introduction](#introduction)
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* [Getting started](#getting-started)
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* [Dependencies](#dependencies)
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* [Building from source](#building-from-source)
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* [Configuration](#configuration)
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* [Running](#running)
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* [License](#license)
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## Introduction
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The main purpose of **Polybar** is to help users create awesome status bars.
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It has built-in functionality to generate content for the most commonly used widgets, such as:
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- Window title
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- Playback controls and status display for [MPD](https://www.musicpd.org/) using [libmpdclient](https://www.musicpd.org/libs/libmpdclient/)
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- [ALSA](http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page) volume controls
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- Workspace and desktop panel for [bspwm](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm) and [i3](https://github.com/i3/i3)
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- CPU and memory load indicator
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- Battery display
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- Network connection details
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- Backlight level
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- Date and time label
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- Time-based shell script execution
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- Command output tailing
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- User-defined menu tree
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- Inter-process messaging
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- And more...
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[See the wiki for more details](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/wiki).
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## Getting started
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If you are using **Arch Linux**, you can install the AUR package [polybar-git](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/polybar-git/) to get the latest version, or
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[polybar](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/polybar/) for the latest stable release. If you are using **Void Linux**
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you can install the package [polybar](https://github.com/voidlinux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/polybar/template) available in the official xbps repository.
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If you create a package for any other distribution, please consider contributing the template.
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### Dependencies
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A compiler with C++14 support ([clang-3.4+](http://llvm.org/releases/download.html), [gcc-5.1+](https://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html)).
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- cmake
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- boost
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- xcb-util-wm
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- xcb-util-image
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- libXft
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- python2
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Optional dependencies for module support:
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- jsoncpp (required by `internal/i3`)
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- Because some distributions only offer pre-historic releases of jsoncpp,
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a local copy of the library source (jsoncpp-1.7.7) will be built and linked
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statically as a fallback if a valid version is not found.
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- wireless_tools (required by `internal/network`)
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- alsa-lib (required by `internal/volume`)
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- libmpdclient (required by `internal/mpd`)
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~~~ sh
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$ pacman -S cmake python2 boost xcb-util-image xcb-util-wm libxft wireless_tools alsa-lib libmpdclient
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$ apt-get install cmake cmake-data libboost-dev libfreetype6-dev libxcb1-dev libx11-xcb-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-xkb-dev xcb-proto python-xcbgen i3-wm libiw-dev libasound2-dev libmpdclient-dev
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~~~
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### Building from source
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Please [report any problems](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/issues/new) you run into when building the project.
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~~~ sh
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$ git clone --branch 2.3.11 --recursive https://github.com/jaagr/polybar
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$ mkdir polybar/build
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$ cd polybar/build
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$ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
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$ sudo make install
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~~~
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There's also a helper script available in the root folder:
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~~~ sh
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$ ./build.sh
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~~~
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### Configuration
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Details on how to setup and configure the bar and each module have been moved to [the wiki](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/wiki/Configuration).
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~~~ sh
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# Install the example configuration
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$ make userconfig
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# Launch the example bar
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$ polybar example
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~~~
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**NOTE:** If the bar output looks odd, it's probably because you're
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missing the fonts defined in the config. Update the config or install the
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missing fonts.
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### Running
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[See the wiki for details on how to run polybar](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/wiki).
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## License
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Polybar is licensed under the MIT license. [See LICENSE for more information](https://github.com/jaagr/polybar/blob/master/LICENSE).
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