polybar-collection VS bumblebee-status

I have some examples in my polybar collection. You could use as a base to make your own theme.

You could check my collection, maybe you'll find something useful https://github.com/Murzchnvok/polybar-collection

I was in the same boat, the wiki seemed too much at first so I downloaded a few configs from others who had bars set up that I liked. After a while I still hadn’t gotten anywhere towards understanding how to make it “my own”. I then stumbled upon polybar-collection and everything just started to click for me. The configs and custom scrips are set up in an easy to understand framework, whereas all of the others I looked at were way over complicated. Take a look, I ended up building my own theme using this framework and feel much better about how to customize it to my needs.

I installed Polybar using the instructions here, but when configuring it I realized most of the modules don't show up at all. This is in my my config.ini:

You can find everything you need in this polybar collection. (btw I use debian)

Just a feel https://github.com/Murzchnvok/polybar-collection

just in case it doesn't work, verify your network name, just to see if it really is wlan0, also I have a nice collection that you can use as a reference or start point.

Used this idea, you can find some greatness here

Take a look in this collection.

Not a stupid question, that happened to me before. I personally would recommend Material Icons, but if you still want to use nf, you can just put a space before a after the icon. Something like this: %{T1} ICON %{T-}, you can find more info in polybar fonts, also you can check my collection.

bumblebee-status (github)for bar, hugely modular and uses Python for modules. Nice assortment of included modules, and it's easy to create new ones.

Hmm i think i found a fix for this issue. So the thing is the status bar i use bumblebee-status needs font-awesome. And initially, this was my font configuarion: font pango:FontAwesome, JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 11 and the issue was that, if I was using FontAwesome as well, then the fonts weren't rendered correctly (as shown in the picture) however when I removed it, it worked just fine. And I noticed that two different fonts can be used, one for the bar and one for i3wm itself. Hence I tried that out. So for i3wm's font I had font pango: JetBrainsMono Nerd Font 11 and in the "bar" section I did this:

https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status << been using this. Works fine for quick and easy setup and go.

I switched to bumblebee-status a few years ago and find it to pretty extensible. Python modules, including lm-sensors support. I have blocks on my bar for radiator push fans rpm, radiator pull fans rpm, both pumps rpm, water in and water out temperatures... as well as a bunch of other stuff like CPU VRM current, package temps, load/usage, etc.

https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#client_colors This is the official page for it. It explains it pretty well. Some people also use https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status for more color options and themes! Though you might have to point the thing to a custom config file.

Today, in what is still completely unbelievable to me, my small, humble project bumblebee-status reached 1k stars on github. Thank you so much to everyone who uses it or contributes to it, you are awesome! (459 PRs and over 400 opened issues mean that most of the work on this project is anyhow done by the community)

I just patched statuscolors to my dwm build with the aim of bringing colors to my statusbar (I use dwmblocks). I want to achieve something aesthetically similar to bumblebee-status, with each statusbar block appearing in a different color. As explained in the patch documentation, I defined an array of colors in my dwm config, something like this:

bumblebee-status, got some nice themes and info on how to write you own; easy to install too. Check this: https://github.com/tobi-wan-kenobi/bumblebee-status

How about Bumblebee-status or Polybar?" That's a question of preference. Both are excellent.