polybar/README.md

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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
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:

[![sample screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/xvlw9iHt.png)](https://i.imgur.com/xvlw9iH.png)
[![sample screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/cYQOuRrt.png)](https://i.imgur.com/cYQOuRr.png)
[![sample screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/A6spiZZt.png)](https://i.imgur.com/A6spiZZ.png)
[![sample screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/TY5a5r9t.png)](https://i.imgur.com/TY5a5r9.png)

You can find polybar configs for these example images (and other configs) [here](https://github.com/jaagr/dots/tree/master/.local/etc/themer/themes).

## Table of Contents

* [Introduction](#introduction)
* [Getting Help](#getting-help)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [Getting started](#getting-started)
  * [Installation](#installation)
  * [Configuration](#configuration)
  * [Running](#running)
* [Community](#community)
* [Contributors](#contributors)
* [License](#license)


## 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](https://www.musicpd.org/) using [libmpdclient](https://www.musicpd.org/libs/libmpdclient/)
- [ALSA](https://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Main_Page) and [PulseAudio](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/) volume controls
- Workspace and desktop panel for [bspwm](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm) and [i3](https://github.com/i3/i3)
- Workspace module for [EWMH compliant](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.3.html#idm140130320786080) 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](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki).

## Getting Help

If you find yourself stuck, have a look at our [Support](SUPPORT.md) page for resources where you can find help.

## Contributing

Read our [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) for how to get started with contributing to polybar.

## Getting started

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Polybar was already packaged for the distros listed below.
If you can't find your distro here, you will have to [build from source](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Compiling).

If you are using **Debian** (unstable or testing), you can install [polybar](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/polybar) using `sudo apt install polybar`.
If you are using **Debian** (buster/stable), you need to enable [backports](https://wiki.debian.org/Backports) and then install using `sudo apt -t buster-backports install polybar`.

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
[polybar](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/polybar/) for the latest stable release.

If you are using **Void Linux**, you can install [polybar](https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/srcpkgs/polybar/template) 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](https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.2/desktop/polybar/) 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](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Utilities/polybar/) repository. Package is available for openSUSE Leap 15.1, openSUSE Leap 15.2 and Tumbleweed.

If you are using **FreeBSD**, [polybar](https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11/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](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/x11-misc/polybar) repository.

If you are using **Fedora**, you can install [polybar](https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/polybar) using `sudo dnf install polybar`.

### Installation

The [compiling page](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Compiling) on the
wiki describes all steps necessary to build and install polybar.

### Configuration

Details on how to setup and configure the bar and each module have been moved to [the wiki](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Configuration).

#### Install the example configuration
Run the following inside the build directory:
~~~ sh
$ make userconfig
~~~
Or you can copy the example config from `/usr/share/doc/polybar/config` or ` /usr/local/share/doc/polybar/config` (depending on your install parameters)

#### Launch the example bar
  ~~~ sh
  $ polybar example
  ~~~

### Running

[See the wiki for details on how to run polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki).

## Community
Want to get in touch?

* Join our Gitter room at [gitter.im/polybar/polybar](https://gitter.im/polybar/polybar)
* We have our own subreddit at [r/polybar](https://www.reddit.com/r/polybar).
* Chat with us in the `#polybar` IRC channel on the `chat.freenode.net` server.

## Contributors

### Owner
* Michael Carlberg [**@jaagr**](https://github.com/jaagr/)

### Maintainers
* [**@NBonaparte**](https://github.com/NBonaparte)
* Chase Geigle [**@skystrife**](https://github.com/skystrife)
* Patrick Ziegler [**@patrick96**](https://github.com/patrick96)

### Logo Design by
* [**@Tobaloidee**](https://github.com/Tobaloidee)


### [All Contributors](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/graphs/contributors)

## License

Polybar is licensed under the MIT license. [See LICENSE for more information](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/blob/master/LICENSE).