polybar - Man Page

polybar [Options]... BAR

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.

-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

Michael Carlberg <c@rlberg.se>
Contributors can be listed on GitHub.

Report issues on GitHub <https://github.com/polybar/polybar>

Full documentation at: <https://github.com/polybar/polybar>
Project wiki: <https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki>

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