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<p align="center">
<img src="doc/_static/banner.png#gh-light-mode-only" alt="Polybar">
<img src="doc/_static/banner-dark-mode.png#gh-dark-mode-only" alt="Polybar">
</p>
<p align="center">
A fast and easy-to-use tool for creating status bars.
</p>
<p align="center">
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**[Documentation](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/) | [Installation](#installation) | [Support](SUPPORT.md) | [Donate](#donations)**
**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.
## Table of Contents
* [Introduction](#introduction)
* [Getting Help](#getting-help)
* [Contributing](#contributing)
* [Getting started](#getting-started)
* [Installation](#installation)
* [First Steps](#first-steps)
* [Community](#community)
* [Contributors](#contributors)
* [Donations](#donations)
* [Sponsors](#sponsors)
* [Backers](#backers)
* [License](#license)
* [Signatures](#signatures)
## 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
### Installation
<a href="https://repology.org/metapackage/polybar">
<img src="https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/polybar.svg" alt="Packaging status" align="right">
</a>
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](https://repology.org/project/polybar/versions) to see a more complete
list of available polybar packages.
If you are using **Debian** (bullseye/11/stable) or later, you can install [polybar](https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/polybar)
using `sudo apt install polybar`. Newer releases of polybar are sometimes provided in the [backports](https://wiki.debian.org/Backports)
repository for stable users, you need to enable [backports](https://wiki.debian.org/Backports) and then install using
`sudo 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](https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/polybar/) to get the
latest stable release using `sudo pacman -S polybar`. The latest unstable
changes are also available in the
[`polybar-git`](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/polybar-git) package in the
AUR.
If you are using **Manjaro**, you can install [polybar](https://software.manjaro.org/package/polybar) to get the latest stable release using `sudo pacman -S polybar`.
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 Leap** or **openSUSE Tumbleweed**, polybar is available from the
[official
repositories](https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/X11:Utilities/polybar)
and can be installed via `zypper install polybar`.
The package is available for openSUSE Leap 15.3 and above.
If you are using **FreeBSD**, [polybar](https://www.freshports.org/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`.
If you can't find your distro here, you will have to [build from source](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Compiling).
### First Steps
[See the wiki for details on how to run and configure polybar](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki).
## Community
Want to get in touch?
* Visit our [Discussion page](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/discussions)
* 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 [`irc.libera.chat:6697`](https://libera.chat/) server
## Contributors
### Maintainers
* Patrick Ziegler [**@patrick96**](https://github.com/patrick96)
### Owner
* Michael Carlberg [**@jaagr**](https://github.com/jaagr/)
### Former Maintainers
* [**@Lomadriel**](https://github.com/Lomadriel)
* [**@NBonaparte**](https://github.com/NBonaparte)
* Chase Geigle [**@skystrife**](https://github.com/skystrife)
### Logo Design by
* [**@Tobaloidee**](https://github.com/Tobaloidee)
### [All Contributors](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/graphs/contributors)
## Donations
Polybar accepts donations through [open collective](https://opencollective.com/polybar).
[Become a backer](https://opencollective.com/polybar) and support polybar!
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## License
Polybar is licensed under the MIT license. [See LICENSE for more information](https://github.com/polybar/polybar/blob/master/LICENSE).
## Signatures
Release archives and tags are signed by a maintainer using GPG. Currently
everything is signed by [Patrick Ziegler](https://www.patrickziegler.ch/gpg)
with fingerprint `1D5791352D51A228D4DDDBA4521E5E03AEBCA1A7`
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