SketchyBar VS polybar

the menubar at the top could be sketchybar

Not sure why the downvotes, same here. I disabled mine in favour of sketchy bar [0]. I hide most things except for bandwidth and clock. Super handy.

0: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar

It is done with SketchyBar and this is his config: https://github.com/crissNb/Dynamic-Island-Sketchybar

Over the last few years I have tried to increase my productivity on a 14" screen as much as possible. The most important thing for me was to rely on keyboard shortcuts as much as possible (skhd), use a tiling window manager (yabai) and a custom status bar (SketchyBar). My full setup is explained in detail in my dotfiles. Let's discuss about further maximizing productivity and about further applications, like Alfred.

Per display y_offset is currently not possible, I think this is a reasonable request for notched screens, and if you like you can add this to the appropriate issue on github: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/issues/120 where we can discuss about the specific implementation.

The separation will only be enabled on builtin displays and the separation can be adjusted freely like described here: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/issues/120

not sure if you will be interested, since it is not a menu bar app but rather a status bar replacement . It is Sketchybar https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar I am currently trying to configure my own config, but the default configs are more than enough to get you going. It is a more hands on approach than the other solutions though.

My own bar: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar you will find the configuration I use in der Discussions -> Share your Setups at the bottom

The default config is much more bare bones but you can find this setup (with slightly changed colors) in the "Share your Setups" section of the project: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar/discussions/47.

This project has been my hobby for the past couple of months and it is completely open source and free to use: https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar . With this tool you can create highly customizable and functional top (or bottom) menu bars to make your macOS more unique while retaining and improving functionality. It is targeted towards advanced users with a solid knowledge about using the commandline and has many features of which the most notable are:

I am on Arch Linux and I am using pywal to generate a colour palette from my wallpaper, which I then use throughout my system. In particular, i have a bash script which grabs these colours and uses them for polybar. The problem is that sometimes these colours do not have enough contrast, and the bar is hard to read. Is there any tool that would allow me to check the readability of my colours, and modify them accordingly, directly from my script? If not, how should I be approaching this issue?

The short answer is you can't.

Çubuk: polybar

It is treaky to show it on all monitors allowing hotpluggin them: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/763

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A common one is polybar, but there are quite a few so they can't be hard to tell just from how it looks

That is a status bar, often used with tiling window managers. A popular one would be https://github.com/polybar/polybar

The bar outside of neovim is polybar and my configs can be found here.

So, Im following the instructions here: https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Compiling

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