bar
A featherweight, lemon-scented, bar based on xcb (by LemonBoy)
dzen2
dzen is a general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11 | Custom+Freeze version (by minos-org)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
bar
Posts with mentions or reviews of bar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-11.
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[wmutils] Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
OpenBSD, bed, nsxiv, bar, tewi
- What patch do I need to get this rectangle side bar in dwm?
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I wrote a status bar generator to learn async Rust, and Rust continues to amaze me
You can see the source code here. It's a tool for generating status bar output for text-based status bars like dzen2, xmobar, or lemonbar. Feedback welcome!
- Program to write text on top of my wallpaper
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Can I get a taskbar with BPSWM or i3?
It's optional though and you can easily replace it with something else. A lot of i3/bspwm users use something like polybar, lemonbar or yabar instead. When I was on bspwm I used tint2. These are all highly customizable, and tiling wm users tend to be the sort who want to customize them, which can be time consuming. But you can use almost anything, even something like the xfce4 panel if you want.
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Status bar for window manager
I like polybar but if you want something simpler, try lemonbar
- Polybar vs tint2
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Which DE do you prefer?
I now run bspwm, along with sxhkd, picom, and lemonbar, as separate userland runit services; my .xinitrc now reads exec dbus-launch --exit-with-x11 runsvdir -P "${HOME}/.local/service/"
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GUI
lemonbar
dzen2
Posts with mentions or reviews of dzen2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-14.
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I wrote a status bar generator to learn async Rust, and Rust continues to amaze me
You can see the source code here. It's a tool for generating status bar output for text-based status bars like dzen2, xmobar, or lemonbar. Feedback welcome!
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Installing dzen2
I am a bit of a noob and I want to install dzen2, I tried using this github page but I do not understand the instructions:
What are some alternatives?
When comparing bar and dzen2 you can also consider the following projects:
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar]
yablocks
bspwm - A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning
sxhkd - Simple X hotkey daemon
ly - display manager with console UI [Moved to: https://github.com/fairyglade/ly]
ly - display manager with console UI
ly-void - TUI display manager for Linux Void
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too
picom - A lightweight compositor for X11
yabar - A modern and lightweight status bar for X window managers.
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