polybar(1)¶
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
REPORTING BUGS¶
Report issues on GitHub <https://github.com/polybar/polybar>