winbar VS polybar

You can give it a try from: https://github.com/jmanc3/winbar

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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exit}' click-left = playerctl play-pause [module/power] type = custom/text content = "" content-font = 2 content-padding = ${widths.huge} click-left = $HOME/.config/polybar/scripts/power.sh content-background=${colors.shade1} [module/mic] type = custom/script tail=true exec = $HOME/.config/polybar/scripts/microphone.sh label-padding = ${widths.large} format = format-font = 3 format-background = ${colors.shade6} click-left = pamixer --source 1 -t scroll-up = pamixer --source 1 -i 5 scroll-down = pamixer --source 1 -d 5 [module/pulseaudio] type = internal/pulseaudio label-volume = %percentage%% label-volume-padding = ${widths.large} label-volume-foreground = ${colors.foreground} label-volume-background= ${colors.shade5} label-muted = %percentage%% label-muted-padding = ${widths.large} label-muted-foreground = ${colors.foreground} label-muted-background= ${colors.shade5} format-muted-prefix = "婢" format-muted-prefix-font = 2 format-muted-prefix-padding= ${widths.large} format-muted-prefix-foreground= ${colors.foreground} format-muted-prefix-background= ${colors.shade5} format-volume-prefix = "墳" format-volume-prefix-font = 2 format-volume-prefix-padding= ${widths.large} format-volume-prefix-foreground = ${colors.foreground} format-volume-prefix-background= ${colors.shade5} click-right = pavucontrol & click-left= pamixer -t scroll-up = pamixer -i 5 scroll-down = pamixer -d 5 [module/wlan] type = internal/network interface = wlp21s0f0u5 interval = 3 format-connected = format-disconnected = label-connected = "YES" label-disconnected = "NO" [module/bspwm] type = internal/bspwm pin-workspaces = true enable-click = true enable-scroll = true reverse-scroll = false label-urgent="%name%" label-urgent-background = ${colors.shade2} label-empty-padding = 1 label-empty="%name%" label-empty-background = ${colors.shade2} label-occupied="" label-occupied-padding = 1 label-occupied-background = ${colors.shade2} label-focused-background = ${colors.shade2} label-focused-padding = 1 label-focused="" radius = 15.0 [module/memory] type = internal/memory interval = 2 label = %used:2% label-padding = ${widths.large} label-background = ${colors.shade4} format-prefix = "﬙" format-prefix-font = 2 format-prefix-padding= ${widths.large} format-prefix-background = ${colors.shade4} [module/cpu] type = internal/cpu interval = 2 label = %percentage%% label-padding = ${widths.large} label-background = ${colors.shade3} format-prefix = "" format-prefix-font = 2 format-prefix-padding= ${widths.large} format-prefix-background = ${colors.shade3} [module/date] type = internal/date interval = 1 date = %I:%M %p date-alt = %d %B • %A label = %date% label-padding = ${widths.large} label-background = ${colors.shade2} format-prefix = "" format-prefix-font = 2 format-prefix-padding= ${widths.large} format-prefix-background = ${colors.shade2} [global/wm] margin-top = 10 [settings] screenchange-reload = true pseudo-transparency = false

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

OS: Arch Linux WM: Bspwm Compositor: Picom Launcher/Powermenu: Rofi Status Bar: Polybar Terminal: Alacritty Shell: Zsh Editor: Neovim Notification: Dunst File Manager: Lf PDF Viewer: Zathura Text fonts: JetBrains Mono Nerd Font DOTFILES: here