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POLYBAR(1) Polybar User Manual POLYBAR(1)

NAME

polybar - 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

Display help text and exit

Display build details and exit

Set the logging verbosity (default: notice)
LEVEL is one of: error, warning, notice, info, trace


Be quiet (will override -l)

Specify the path to the configuration file. By default, the configuration file is loaded from: 
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/polybar/config
$HOME/.config/polybar/config


Reload the application when the config file has been modified

Print the value of the specified parameter PARAM in bar section and exit

Print list of available monitors and exit

If some monitors are cloned, this will exclude all but one of them


Print list of available monitors and exit

This will also include all cloned monitors.


Print the generated WM_NAME and exit

Output the data to stdout instead of drawing it to the X window

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

March 1, 2021 3.5.5