A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.
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.
The main purpose of Polybar is to help users create awesome status bars. It has built-in functionality to display information about the most commonly used services. Some of the services included so far...
Install following programs on your system before you use these themes.
Polybar
: Of course, the bar itselfRofi
: For App launcher, network, power and style menuspywal
: For pywal supportcalc
: For random colors supportnetworkmanager_dmenu
: For network modulesHere's a list of all fonts used by these themes.
Text Fonts
Icon Fonts
Follow the steps below to install these themes on your system.
$ git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes.git
$ cd polybar-themes
$ chmod +x setup.sh
setup.sh
and select a style -$ ./setup.sh
[*] Installing Polybar Themes...
[*] Choose Style -
[1] Simple
[2] Bitmap
[?] Select Option : 1
[*] Installing fonts...
[*] Creating a backup of your polybar configs...
[*] Successfully Installed.
Note : These themes are like an ecosystem, everything here is connected with each other in some way. So... before modifying anything by your own, make sure you know what you are doing.
To launch the bar with the selected theme, Just...
$ bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh
Usage : launch.sh --theme
Available Themes :
--blocks --colorblocks --cuts --docky
--forest --grayblocks --hack --material
--panels --pwidgets --shades --shapes
$ bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh --hack
$HOME/.config/openbox/autostart
-## Launch Polybar
bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh --cuts
Almost every theme has pywal and random color support added to them. If you want to use the bar with pywal, just execute the pywal.sh
script with the path of the wallpaper or wallpapers directory. eg - If you're using material theme...
$ bash ~/.config/polybar/material/scripts/pywal.sh /path/to/wallpaper
If you want to use random colors for your bar, just execute random.sh
script -
$ bash ~/.config/polybar/material/scripts/random.sh
You can add these lines, before the launch command in your WM startup file if you want to use pywal or random color for your bar every time you login. eg - in Openbox's autostart
file...
## Launch Polybar with random wallpaper
bash ~/.config/polybar/material/scripts/pywal.sh /path/to/wallpaper_dir
bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh --material
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Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Material IconsText Font
: Fantasque Sans Monopreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Iosevka Nerd FontText Font
: Fantasque Sans Monopreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Iosevka Nerd FontText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Icomoon FeatherText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Icomoon FeatherText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Style Switcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Colors
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Iosevka Nerd FontText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Style Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Icomoon FeatherText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Icomoon FeatherText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Style Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Default
Nord
Adapta
Gruvbox
Cherry
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Iosevka Nerd FontText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Dark
Light
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Icomoon FeatherText Font
: Iosevka Nerd Fontpreview.sh
to see all configured modulesApp Launcher
Style Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Bar
Modules
Default
Nord
Gruvbox
Dark
Cherry
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
Budgie
Deepin
Elementary
Elementary Dark
Gnome
KDE
KDE Dark
Liri
Mint
Ubuntu Gnome
Ubuntu Unity
Xubuntu
Zorin
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Icomoon Feather, Iosevka Nerd Font, Material IconsText Font
: Droid Sans, Noto SansApp Launcher
Bar Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Budgie
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Deepin
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Elementary
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Elementary Dark
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Gnome
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
KDE
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
KDE Dark
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Liri
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Mint
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu Gnome
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu Unity
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Xubuntu
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Zorin
Launcher | Networks | Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|---|---|
Window Manager
: OpenboxIcon Font
: Iosevka Nerd FontText Font
: Iosevka Nerd FontApp Launcher
Color Switcher
Powermenu
Network Menu
Click to expand
Apps | System | MPD | Workspaces |
---|---|---|---|
CPU | Memory | Filesystem | Tray |
---|---|---|---|
Launcher | Networks |
---|---|
Powermenu | Color Switcher |
---|---|
People usually open very common issues here, which are not actually caused by these themes. Here are few issues which can be solved easily.
0. Font issue with HiDPI screen
If you're using a hidpi screen...
config.ini
file -; Text Fonts
font-0 = Iosevka Nerd Font:style=Medium:size=10;4
; Icons Fonts
font-1 = feather:style=Medium:size=12;3
; Powerline Glyphs
font-2 = Iosevka Nerd Font:style=Medium:size=19;3
; Larger font size for bar fill icons
font-3 = Iosevka Nerd Font:style=Medium:size=12;4
; Smaller font size for shorter spaces
font-4 = Iosevka Nerd Font:style=Medium:size=7;4
You may have to increase the height/width of the bar as well.
1. Dropping unmatched character
If you're facing this issue...
$ sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
2. System tray icons are not showing
By default, the System tray is disabled in these themes. You can enable it by editing the config.ini
file -
; Available positions:
; left
; center
; right
; none
tray-position = right
3. Brightness module is not working
If the brightness module is not working on your system, Edit modules.ini
& bars.ini
files and...
type = internal/xbacklight
and card = intel_backlight
, if you're using an Intel GPU.type = internal/backlight
if you're using an AMD or Nvidia GPU./sys/class/backlight/
and find the card name for your system. (eg: card = amdgpu_bl0
)4. Battery module is not working
:
If the battery module is not working on your system, Edit modules.ini
& bars.ini
files and...
ls -l /sys/class/power_supply/
command to list batteries and adapters.BAT1
and ACAD
with your batteries and adapters. (eg: battery = BAT0
)5. MPD module is not working
:
If the mpd module is not working on your system...
host =
, port =
and password =
values accordingly.6. Temperature module is not working
:
If your system doesn't support thermal-zones, Use full path of temperature sysfs path in hwmon-path =
.
7. Updates module is not working
:
The Updates module and checkupdates
, updates.sh
scripts only works for pacman
(Arch Linux package manager)
8. Volume module is not working
:
There are both alsa
and pulseaudio
modules available in each theme. Use according to your system.
config.ini
to enable it.