Distro Specific Setup - Cationiz3r/polybar GitHub Wiki

This page contains tips for setting up your polybar environment in different distros, contributed by the community. Also check out the developer documentation.

If you run into any quirks in your distro, feel free to document them here.

Nix

You don't need the Nix distro to use the following, just the Nix package manager. It can be installed in any Linux distro and Mac OS.

How to use:

  • Enable Flakes support in your Nix installation.
  • git clone the polybar repo and create the below two files (flake.nix, flake.lock) in the root of the repo.
  • Run nix develop

This will drop you into a shell with all the packages needed for polybar development installed.

flake.nix 
{
  inputs = {
    nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs";
  };

  outputs = { self, nixpkgs }:
    let
      pkgs = nixpkgs.legacyPackages.x86_64-linux;
    in {
      devShell.x86_64-linux =
        pkgs.mkShell {
          buildInputs = with pkgs; [
            alsaLib
            cairo.dev
            cmake
            curl.dev
            i3
            jsoncpp.dev
            libmpdclient
            libpulseaudio
            libuv
            pkg-config
            sphinx
            wirelesstools
            xorg.libxcb
            xorg.xcbproto
            xorg.xcbutilimage
            xorg.xcbutilwm.dev
          ];
        };
    };
}
flake.lock 
{
  "nodes": {
    "nixpkgs": {
      "locked": {
        "lastModified": 1648400941,
        "narHash": "sha256-82VdFzqvRY7oRVQyHW7+BYtwdOVH5hmVysYSV/SecF0=",
        "owner": "NixOS",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "rev": "d56076aa39859f675bbdc64ea148664406db3278",
        "type": "github"
      },
      "original": {
        "owner": "NixOS",
        "repo": "nixpkgs",
        "type": "github"
      }
    },
    "root": {
      "inputs": {
        "nixpkgs": "nixpkgs"
      }
    }
  },
  "root": "root",
  "version": 7
}
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