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. You can install the AUR package polybar-git to get the latest version, or polybar for the latest stable release. Polybar's powerful yet simple DSL allows for extensive customization while remaining relatively easy to write and understand. Available in both the stable and unstable channels and can be installed with the command nix-env -iA nixos.polybar. Available in OBS repository, package is available both for openSUSE Leap 15 and Tumbleweed. Both release and git-master versions are available in the main repository. Polybar spell is available in the test grimoire and can be installed via cast polybar.
Features
- Date and time display
- Keyboard layout and indicator status
- Backlight level display
- MPD playback controls and status display
- Workspace Panel for bspwm and i3
- Time-based Shell execution as well as command output tailing