Polybar Collection

Getting Started

I'll add more themes based on what we had before with the new changes.

Also if you find any typos or I missed something let me know.

Prerequisites

You need polybar installed.

Clone repo

--depth=1 shallow clone (basically smaller repo size).

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Murzchnvok/polybar-collection

Use

You need to set some environment variable, in my case I'll set on /etc/environment.

The only one you actually need is POLYBAR_COLLECTION with the path to the polybar-collection.

First open the file:

I use nvim, change to whatever you use.

sudo nvim /etc/environment

Add environment variable:

The path needs to be where you cloned the polybar-collection.

POLYBAR_COLLECTION=/home/user/polybar-collection

Adicional variables are:

Only needed if you use:

battery, wireless, wired and weather modules

• POLYBAR_BATTERY_ADP
• POLYBAR_BATTERY_BAT
• POLYBAR_WIRELESS
• POLYBAR_WIRED
• POLYBAR_WEATHER_API

To get battery values:

ls -1 /sys/class/power_supply/

will return your battery adaptar and "name", so it can return:

ADP0
BAT0

ADP0 goes to POLYBAR_BATTERY_ADP and BAT0 goes to POLYBAR_BATTERY_BAT.

To get network values:

ip addr

will return something like this:

1: lo: ...

2: wlp1s0: ...

3: enp3s0f4u1: ...

wlp1s0 goes to POLYBAR_WIRELESS and enp3s0f4u1 goes to POLYBAR_WIRED.

To get weather API:

It's using my personal API by default, but please get your own ;)

https://www.weatherapi.com

go to this link, make an account, it's gonna give you an API key and it goes to POLYBAR_WEATHER_API.

So your /etc/environment file would look something like this:

POLYBAR_COLLECTION=/home/murz/polybar-collection
POLYBAR_BATTERY_ADP=ADP0
POLYBAR_BATTERY_BAT=BAT0
POLYBAR_WIRELESS=wlp1s0
POLYBAR_WIRED=enp3s0f4u1
POLYBAR_WEATHER_API=46276f91dcb44de4ac0134024262101

BSPWM

You probably already know this, but I feel like I need to add the instruction.

Inside .config/bspwm/bspwmrc add the line.

$POLYBAR_COLLECTION/launch.sh &

Customization

Change theme and/or colorscheme

Open config.ini, there's a comment for both colorscheme and theme.

In the line below ; Colorscheme you can change the file.ini to whatever colorscheme is in the folder colorscheme/.

include-file = ${env:POLYBAR_COLLECTION}/colorscheme/file.ini

The same goes to the theme, just change the name after themes/ to whatever theme you have in the folder themes/.

Change font

By default is using JetBrainsmono font from nerd fonts.

I left a few comments like icons normal size, meaning this font is only used for icons, or text normal meaning.. I know you already understood.

Open fonts.ini, and change the fonts to whatever you like.

You might be interested

I had to update this thing, it was a mess, sometimes I wanted to use another theme but with my beloved gruvbox and I couldn't without changing a lot.

Other repos related to polybar themes.

• polybar-themes by adi1090x
• polybar-themes by prcxzm
• Polybar-Collection by Z-8Bit

Examples

Change goes in config.ini and enabled-modules.ini

Hidrot

config.ini

; Colorscheme
include-file = ${env:POLYBAR_COLLECTION}/colorscheme/nord.ini

; Theme
include-directory = ${env:POLYBAR_COLLECTION}/themes/hidrot

[bar/main]
background = ${colors.semi-trans}

enabled-modules.ini

modules-left = weather margin date
modules-center = border-round-left bspwm border-round-right
modules-right = cpu margin memory margin pulseaudio margin backlight margin battery

Murz

config.ini

; Colorscheme
include-file = ${env:POLYBAR_COLLECTION}/colorscheme/gruvbox.ini

; Theme
include-directory = ${env:POLYBAR_COLLECTION}/themes/murz

[bar/main]
background = ${colors.full-trans}

enabled-modules.ini

modules-left = bspwm
modules-center = border-round-left-blue weather date border-round-right-blue
modules-right = cpu memory pulseaudio backlight battery