scripts VS polybar

Compare scripts vs polybar and see what are their differences.

scripts

*Well documented* scripts exploiting some useful UNIX utilities. (by chhajedji)

polybar

A fast and easy-to-use status bar [Moved to: https://github.com/polybar/polybar] (by jaagr)
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scripts polybar
6 3
10 8,469
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4.8 8.9
3 months ago about 3 years ago
Shell C++
- MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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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.

scripts

Posts with mentions or reviews of scripts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-13.
  • Script to change wallpaper.
    1 project | /r/dwm | 13 Sep 2021
    You may use or ignore the disp_config.sh used in this script.
  • Script to change wallpaper
    2 projects | /r/bash | 13 Sep 2021
    new_wall.sh: https://github.com/chhajedji/scripts/blob/master/new_wall.sh
  • Reminders with notification!
    1 project | /r/bash | 12 Aug 2021
    I've created a script for managing reminders by simply sending scheduled notifications using dmenu, at and notify-send and viewing/deleting reminders. Check it out at https://github.com/chhajedji/scripts/blob/master/remindme.sh Would love to have suggestions, review or feedback! 🙂
  • How are you restarting your dwmbar?
    2 projects | /r/suckless | 23 Apr 2021
    Need suggestion on how are you restarting your dwm status bar set with xsetroot and not the classic dwmblocks. I have a script dwmbar which loads the status bar. Then I use another script which reloads the status bar whenever I press volume key, which takes significant time.
  • How to make alias for compiling c code ?
    1 project | /r/bash | 4 Apr 2021
    I have this script, which checks if last edited file is a C file or not. If it's a C file, then script will compile and run it. Alternatively if an argument is passed, script will compile that file and run it.
  • How to create a keybind to suspend computer
    2 projects | /r/suckless | 3 Apr 2021
    Your usage would look like: { MODKEY, XK_s, spawn, SHCMD("systemctl suspend") }, `` Also a better idea to suspend could be to lock system when recovered from suspended state. Check [this script](https://github.com/chhajedji/scripts/blob/master/suspend_lock.sh) to suspend the computer. It usesi3lock` to lock system.

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 2022-05-08.

What are some alternatives?

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

dwmblocks - Modular status bar for dwm written in c.

polydock - ✨ A shiny and hackable application dock

sxhkd - Simple X hotkey daemon

herbstluftwm - A manual tiling window manager for X11

egpu-switcher - 🖥🐧 Setup script for eGPUs in Linux (X.Org)

archcraft - // Source : ISO

i3ass - A collection of shell scripts to ease the use of i3wm

yabar - A modern and lightweight status bar for X window managers.

dwm-bar - simplest unclickable dwm status bar

win3wm - A Tiling Window Manager for windows 10, Inspired by i3wm

scripts - Collection of useful scripts for Linux (git, docker, LUKS, Archlinux...)

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar