Man1 - polybar.1

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use tool status bar

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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