polybar - Man Page
A fast and easy-to-use tool status bar
Synopsis
polybar [Options]... BAR
Description
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.
Options
- -h, --help
Display help text and exit
- -v, --version
Display build details and exit
- -l, --log=LEVEL
Set the logging verbosity (default: notice) LEVEL is one of: error, warning, notice, info, trace
- -q, --quiet
Be quiet (will override -l)
- -c, --config=FILE
Specify the path to the configuration file. By default, the configuration file is loaded from:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/polybar/config $HOME/.config/polybar/config
- -r, --reload
Reload the application when the config file has been modified
- -d, --dump=PARAM
Print the value of the specified parameter PARAM in bar section and exit
- -m, --list-monitors
Print list of available monitors and exit
If some monitors are cloned, this will exclude all but one of them
- -M, --list-all-monitors
Print list of available monitors and exit
This will also include all cloned monitors.
- -w, --print-wmname
Print the generated WM_NAME and exit
- -s, --stdout
Output the data to stdout instead of drawing it to the X window
- -p, --png=FILE
Save png snapshot to FILE after running for 3 seconds
Author
Michael Carlberg <c@rlberg.se> Contributors can be listed on GitHub.
Reporting Bugs
Report issues on GitHub <https://github.com/polybar/polybar>
See Also
Full documentation at: <https://github.com/polybar/polybar> Project wiki: <https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki>
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Copyright
2016-2021, Michael Carlberg & contributors