Polybar

Overview

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.

Get Started

Arch Linux, you can install the latest stable release
sudo pacman -S polybar

For a normal installation, polybar will install the default config to /etc/polybar/config.ini. This config file should be usable out-of-the-box by simply running in your terminal:
polybar

Learn More

https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki

Polybar Themes

Overview

A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

Dependencies

Install following programs on your system before you use these themes.

• Polybar
• Rofi: Rofi, like dmenu, will provide the user with a textual list of options where one or more can be selected.
• pywal:Pywal is a tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image.
• calc : For random colors support
• networkmanager_dmenu : For network modules

Installation

First, Clone this repository
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes.git

Change to cloned directory and make setup.sh executable
cd polybar-themes
chmod +x setup.sh

Run setup.sh to install polybar-themes ./setup.sh

Launch the bar

Open the terminal and enter the following command
bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

To launch the bar with the selected theme

Usage : launch.sh --theme

Available Themes :
--blocks    --colorblocks    --cuts      --docky
--forest    --grayblocks     --hack      --material
--panels    --pwidgets       --shades    --shapes

Example: bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh --hack

You can add the same command to your WM autostart file to launch the bar on login(Location varies on WM you have installed)
nvim ~/.config/i3/config

Add the folowing line

#Launch Polybar
exec --no-startup-id bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh --hack