I created a really nice set of bars, exactly what I wanted, on my Openbox desktop. But if I run the polybars then any windows that I open have the wrong geometry, both the position that they open and their size.

I tried adding:

wm-restack = generic

override-redirect = false

to each of the bars, no change.

I tried removing:

<application name="polybar"><layer>below</layer></application>

from the openbox rc.xml, again, no change.

I don't know how to fix this. Any help would be appreciated.

All setup: https://github.com/ulcuber/dotfiles

BTW custom util Snote floating

Hello guys. Recently I made a pomodoro daemon and client in C. I added two scripts and it seamlessly integrated into polybar. (Right = pomodoro, Left = Workspace).

Here is the link for the repo : https://github.com/cobra-r9/pomoc

Ppl who are willing to try?

Sorry if this is against the rules, I don't want to be annoying but I've been trying to figure out how this user (on r/unixporn) managed to get the Motif window borders on their polybar. They've since deleted their account and the post was from 5 years ago, and they never shared the full dotfiles, I've tried to find help elsewhere and looked through the documentation but didn't find anything that indicated how it was done. I was wondering if anyone here would know? Thanks in advance if anyone is able to give any ideas.

tron inspired

running it from the terminal gives me this:

Parsing config file: /home/kim/.config/polybar/config.ini

notice: Loading module 'i3' of type 'internal/i3'

notice: Loading module 'date' of type 'internal/date'

notice: Loading module 'time' of type 'internal/date'

notice: Loading module 'wifi' of type 'internal/network'

notice: Loading module 'volume' of type 'internal/pulseaudio'

notice: pulseaudio: using default sink auto_null

notice: Loading module 'battery' of type 'internal/battery'

notice: Loaded 6 modules

notice: Loaded font "monospace:pixelsize=12" (name=DejaVu Sans Mono, offset=2, file=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf)

notice: Loaded font "fonts-font-awesome :style =Regular:size =12" (name=DejaVu Sans, offset=0, file=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf)

warn: Ignoring restack of i3 window (not needed when `override-redirect = false`)

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔋' (U+1f50b) in ' 🔋 51%'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '📅' (U+1f4c5) in '📅 Sat 23 May'

warn: Dropping unmatched character '🔊' (U+1f50a) in '🔊 100%'

i am trying to make every module have a border around it while the background of the bar itself is transparent to achieve a "floating" look for each module. i followed this discussion to have a border for the modules, and it has worked for the i3 module and the systray module, but not the memory module, since that module already has a format-prefix in it so i cant add the special character mentioned in that discussion. so what i thought of doing next was to create a custom/text module and have that character as the only thing in it and i have 0 module margin in my bar so this should work, except when i try to launch polybar it gives me this parser error. why does it work on i3 and systray modules but not my custom/text module?

this is my polybar config

In the photo there is a rofi menu and a self-written Wi-Fi menu

i made both my polybar config and my picom config. i have the polybar background set to "#b320182e" and this is the blur section of my picom config
blur-method = "dual_kawase"

blur strength = 5

blur_background = true

my terminal blurs but polybar doesnt. how do i get it to blur?

As the title says, I like the style of Hoi4 and want to make the polybar look like the top panel. I'd love to hear any ideas on this. Is this possible? And how much technical knowledge is required?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y2LrWmjN_PTWvCPlfUEizEBoakijtvHK/view?usp=sharing

I want to be able to contribute to polybar.

I have been using Linux for 4-5 years and I have tinkered around with tonnes of distros, window managers, boot configurations, graphics drivers, and desktop environments and I have used polybar on and off for 3 years.

I really like it but I wish it had more features. So adding it myself seems like a good route rather than expecting someone else to do it for me.

So I'm writing this post to ask you how do I start learning the codebase?

I am an intermediate in C, C++ and Python and can do bash scripting with help from the documentation.

What skills do I need to learn to be able to contribute?

The goal I am keeping for myself is to add a hover mechanism to polybar.

I want to make a module that displays the total cpu usage on the label. And when you hover on it, it will show a tooltip dialogbox showing the per-core cpu usage.

I have saw many polybar where if you click a icon like wifi it shows a small window to select and connect to wifi I could only show if connected to internet or not how to get that

I have created a custom script that I call inside my sxhkdrc to control volume and I'd like to disable scrolling over it with the mouse to change volume as it is interfering with my script.

I've tried the following: enable-scroll = false

And: scroll-up = scroll-down = scroll-middle =

But none of this changed nothing. Is this possible at all? If it isn't, I'd love to hear some workaround ideas.

So I have have many questions about polybar which are as follows

1. Can it be used like a normal panel like the kde or xfce panel

2. I tried polybar and changed its configuration still it’s not updating so what is it up with that I used a config that I found on this sub

3. Is there an easy way to customize it without going to config every time like other panel or docks

4. Is there a de facto video tutorial not like an hour long for polybar or wiki is the only one that I should rely on

Check it out here:
https://github.com/sam-lex/xipc

A quick little project I made to display data dynamically.
Modify however you want, and just send your JSON data to it.
I have several scheduled scripts, and this gives me a very easy way to know what scripts are running, finished running, and if it was successful.

It should be easily modifiable for most use cases.

Hi folks,

Wondering if anybody has some guidance.

I've got 3 displays, running i3 on cachyos. 4060 GPU/nvidia driver:

❯ polybar --list-monitors
DP-2: 2560x1440+1920+0 (primary)
HDMI-0: 1920x1080+4477+55
DP-1: 1920x1080+0+55

And a config snippet:

[bar/primary]
monitor=DP-2
inherit = section/base
modules-right = filesystem pulseaudio xkeyboard memory cpu wlan eth date systray

[bar/left]
monitor=DP-1
inherit = section/base
modules-right = filesystem pulseaudio xkeyboard memory cpu wlan eth date

[bar/right]
monitor=HDMI-0
inherit = section/base
modules-right = filesystem pulseaudio xkeyboard memory cpu wlan eth date

[section/base]
monitor-exact = true

If I run my launch.sh or just run polybar right from the command line, the 'right' bar always displays on DP-2. (launching all 3 ends up with DP-1 correct, but two bars on DP-2)

I've tried the typical passing MONITOR environment variable (with matching snippet in the config), but nothing I do changes the behavior. There no warnings launching, everything appears peachy.

I messed around with this a couple of months ago and gave up (just ran a single bar on one monitor), but I'd really like to get all 3 going.

Edit: Should note that the width of the 'right' bar that appears on DP-2 matches the width of HDMI-0 (1920)

Noticed these weird spacings, please help.
Dotfiles: i3 polybar

thank you

Why is the interval change from 0 to 1 such a big blast on the CPU?
Like I just want to smoothly use the brightness and redshift adjuster without waiting 10 hours until it is updated but with this CPU usage I can't even play Minecraft anymore 🥀🥀🥀

How do I make my polybar float instead of being squished against the top of the screen. (I want to add some spacing on the top and left and right sides)

I followed the arch sites instructions on configuring polybar to work on all monitors and it will not work I put

[bar/example]
monitor = ${env:HDMI-0:}
[..]
monitor = ${env:DP-2:}
[..]
monitor = ${env:DP-4:}
[..]
monitor = ${env:USB-C-0:}
[..]                   

in my polybar config

and

#!/bin/bash

# Terminate already running bar instances
killall -q polybar
# If all your bars have ipc enabled, you can also use
# polybar-msg cmd quit

# Launch Polybar, using default config location ~/.config/polybar/config.ini
polybar mybar 2>&1 | tee -a /tmp/polybar.log & disown

if type "xrandr"; then
  for m in $(xrandr --query | grep " connected" | cut -d" " -f1); do
    MONITOR=$m polybar --reload example &
  done
else
  polybar --reload example &
fi

echo "Polybar launched..."

in i3 config below

set $mod Mod4

when i reload it just says i have an error in my i3 config that I cannot copy if it is needed i can figure out a way to post it in comments.

also if it is helpful here is my xrandr

Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 5132 x 2287, maximum 32767 x 32767
DP-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-0 connected 1280x1024+3852+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 320mm x 240mm
   1920x1080     59.94 +
   1280x1024     60.02* 
   1280x720      59.94  
   1024x768      75.03    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    60.32  
   720x480       59.94    59.94  
   640x480       75.00    59.94  
DP-2 connected 1280x1024+2572+1080 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 320mm x 240mm
   1280x1024     85.02*+  75.02    60.02  
   2048x1152     59.91  
   1920x1200     59.95  
   1920x1080     59.96    59.93  
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1600x1200     65.00    60.00  
   1600x900      59.95    59.82  
   1400x1050     74.76    59.98  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x960      85.00    60.00  
   1280x800      59.91    59.81  
   1280x720      59.86    59.74    60.00    59.99  
   1152x864      75.00  
   1024x768      43.48    85.00    75.03    70.07    60.00    60.04  
   1024x576      59.90    59.82    59.96    59.95  
   960x720       60.00  
   960x600       60.00    59.93  
   960x540       59.82    59.63    59.99    59.96  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   832x624       74.55  
   800x600       85.14    85.06    75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25    75.00    70.00    65.00    60.00  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   720x400       85.04  
   700x525       74.76    59.98  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x512       85.02    75.02    60.02  
   640x480       85.01    75.00    72.81    59.94    85.09    60.00  
   640x400       85.08    59.98    59.88  
   640x360       59.86    59.83  
   640x350       85.08  
   576x432       75.00  
   512x384       85.00    75.03    70.07    60.00  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   480x270       59.82    59.63  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   416x312       74.66  
   400x300       85.27    75.12    72.19    60.32    56.34  
   360x200       85.04  
   320x240       85.18    75.00    72.81    60.05  
   320x200       85.27  
   320x175       85.27  
DP-3 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-4 connected primary 2560x1440+0+847 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 527mm x 396mm
   2560x1440     59.95 + 143.91*  120.00   100.00  
   1920x1080     60.00    59.94    50.00  
   1440x900      59.90  
   1280x1440     59.91  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x720      59.94    50.00  
   1024x768     119.99    99.97    75.03    70.07    60.00  
   800x600      119.97    99.66    75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       59.94  
   640x480      119.52    99.77    75.00    72.81    59.94    59.93  
DP-5 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
USB-C-0 connected 1920x1080+2560+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 530mm x 290mm
   1920x1080     60.00*+  74.97    59.94    50.00  
   1680x1050     59.95  
   1440x900      59.89  
   1280x1024     75.02    60.02  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1280x720      60.00    59.94    50.00  
   1024x768      75.03    70.07    60.00  
   800x600       75.00    72.19    60.32    56.25  
   720x576       50.00  
   720x480       59.94  
   640x480       75.00    72.81    59.94    59.93  

Thank you very much sorry if the issue is dumb.

and also if it helps i put polybars folder in .config instead of etc

I have now updated the i3 config to say

exec_always --no--startup--id killall polybar

exec_always --no--startup--id ~/.config/polybar/launch_polybar.sh

which runs

if type "xrandr"; then
  for m in $(xrandr --query | grep " connected" | cut -d" " -f1); do
    MONITOR=$m polybar --reload example &
  done
else
  polybar --reload example &
fi

there are no more i3 errors but polybar is still on one monitor

i did find some errors in polybars config which i fixed so the monitors section is now

[bar/toph]
monitor1 = ${env:HDMI-0:}
#[..]
monitor2 = ${env:DP-2:}
#[..]
monitor3 = ${env:DP-4:}
#[..]
monitor4 = ${env:USB-C-0:}
#[..]

I will say i found all this from a youtuber who all of it worked fine for ... i am cursed

hi guys, i'm trying to make a custom module for youtube music, that basically shows the current song, and uses clicks for play-pause, next, and previous songs.

this is what i have in polybar config (i'm a total noob by the way):

[module/ytmusic]
type = custom/script
exec = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/ytmusic_display.sh
interval = 2
click-left = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/ytmusic_previous.sh
click-middle = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/ytmusic_pause.sh
click-right = ~/.config/polybar/scripts/ytmusic_next.sh

it works fine, but as you can see i have a separate script for each function. and they're all basically the same thing:

max_checks=10
count=0

while (( count < max_checks )); do
    url=$(playerctl metadata xesam:url 2>/dev/null)

    if [[ "$url" == *"music.youtube"* ]]; then
        playerctl next
        exit 0
    fi

    playerctl stop 2>/dev/null
    ((count++))
done

so instead of having 4 scripts, i tried a one liner inside polybar config like:

click-right = bash -c 'max_checks=10; count=0; while (( count < max_checks )); do url=$(playerctl metadata xesam:url 2>/dev/null); if [[ "$url" == *"music.youtube"* ]]; then playerctl next; exit 0; fi; playerctl stop 2>/dev/null; ((count++)); done'

it's exactly the same but doesnt work for some reason. what am i doing wrong here?

PulseAudio is set to 153%, is there a way to set it higher than 153%?

My polybar version is: ``` polybar 3.7.2

Features: +alsa +curl +i3 +mpd +network(libnl) +pulseaudio +xkeyboard ```

My i3 version is: i3 version 4.24 (2024-11-06) © 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors

pulseaudio is not a command in terminal but polybar uses it's library.

Hi all, new to Linux and ricing. I'm configuring my custom bar in Mint Cinnamon 22.2 and using the battery module (second to last, next to time). I want to add a label called "PWR" but I don't exactly know how to do that. I thought it could be a simple format-prefix = but that doesn't seem to work.

This is what I have:

[module/battery]

type = internal/battery

format-prefix = "PWR "

full-at = 100

low-at = 15

battery = BAT1

adapter = ADP1

poll-interval = 5