bspwm VS polybar

Compare bspwm vs polybar and see what are their differences.

bspwm

A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning (by baskerville)
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bspwm polybar
92 279
7,500 13,508
- 1.2%
1.5 7.9
3 days ago 11 days ago
C C++
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License MIT License
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bspwm

Posts with mentions or reviews of bspwm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.

polybar

Posts with mentions or reviews of polybar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-03.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bspwm and polybar you can also consider the following projects:

i3 - A tiling window manager for X11

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

tint2

i3-gaps - i3-gaps – i3 with more features (forked from https://github.com/i3/i3)

i3blocks-contrib - Official repository for community contributed blocklets

river - [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

bismuth - KDE Plasma add-on, that tiles your windows automatically and lets you manage them via keyboard, similarly to i3, Sway or dwm.

conky - Light-weight system monitor for X, Wayland (sort of), and other things, too

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11

rofi - Rofi: A window switcher, application launcher and dmenu replacement