xmobar VS pfetch

Compare xmobar vs pfetch and see what are their differences.

xmobar

A minimalistic status bar (by jaor)

pfetch

🐧 A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh. (by dylanaraps)
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xmobar pfetch
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8.7 0.0
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xmobar

Posts with mentions or reviews of xmobar. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-03.
  • Strange colons in XMobar
    2 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 3 Feb 2022
    Strange. I probably won't have time to look into this today, but I will look into it this weekend if it's still happening. The lead maintainer is nice and responsive. Feel free to make an issue at https://github.com/jaor/xmobar.
  • Recommend packages for a WM Setup
    5 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 8 Dec 2021
    I use Sakura for terminals, xmobar for info, nemo) as the file manager, flameshot to grab screenshots, picom for transparency, notify-osd for showing notifications, xscreensaver to blank/lock the screen, redshift to set brightness/adjust color, x-on-resize to handle connecting screens, and parcellite for clipboards.
  • How to build an xmobar config from from a haskell source file?
    5 projects | reddit.com/r/NixOS | 31 Aug 2021
    I can't build the project. configure: error: X11 libraries not found, so X11 package cannot be built Ok, so I went to xmobar's repo and installed all their stack.yaml dependencies via nix and X11 still fails to build.
    5 projects | reddit.com/r/NixOS | 31 Aug 2021
    I've always just used the plain textfile option for configuring xmobar. This works out of the box with nixos, but now I want to use a haskell source file like shown here and import arbitrary haskell libraries.
    5 projects | reddit.com/r/NixOS | 31 Aug 2021
    The ah-xmobar built by NixOS doesn't display. I'm now reasonably convinced that the xmobar library provided by nixpkgs was not compiled with the necessary flags to support my config. Reason being that: - Compiled ah-xmobar using NixOS pre-compiled xmobar library doesn't work with xmobar's example hs config. - Compiled ah-xmobar using NixOS pre-compiled xmobar library works with a config that uses commands = [] and template = "%uname%". - Compiled ah-xmobar using custom compiled xmobar library with the +all_extensions flag works for any configuration.
  • Using trayer with xmobar?
    3 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 31 Aug 2021
    https://github.com/jaor/xmobar/blob/master/examples/padding-icon.sh this script generates a transparent xpm icon same width as your tray size. run this as a module in xmobar wherever you want trayer to be and launch trayer to that position. take a look at this https://github.com/Sloopy3333/dotfiles/tree/master/.config/xmonad
  • Problems with xmobar
    4 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 9 Aug 2021
    I tried this example config from xmobar.org. And it works. Config { font = "-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" , additionalFonts = [] , borderColor = "black" , border = TopB , bgColor = "black" , fgColor = "grey" , alpha = 255 , position = Top , textOffset = -1 , iconOffset = -1 , lowerOnStart = True , pickBroadest = False , persistent = False , hideOnStart = False , iconRoot = "." , allDesktops = True , overrideRedirect = True , commands = [ Run Weather "EGPF" ["-t",": C", "-L","18","-H","25", "--normal","green", "--high","red", "--low","lightblue"] 36000 , Run Network "eth0" ["-L","0","-H","32", "--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Network "eth1" ["-L","0","-H","32", "--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Cpu ["-L","3","-H","50", "--normal","green","--high","red"] 10 , Run Memory ["-t","Mem: %"] 10 , Run Swap [] 10 , Run Com "uname" ["-s","-r"] "" 36000 , Run Date "%a %b %_d %Y %H:%M:%S" "date" 10 ] , sepChar = "%" , alignSep = "}{" , template = "%cpu% | %memory% * %swap% | %eth0% - %eth1% }\ \{ %date%| %EGPF% | %uname%" }
    4 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 9 Aug 2021
    same error: xmobar: /home/janus/.config/xmobar/xmobar.hs: hGetContents: invalid argument (invalid byte sequence) but when I change the arch wiki config file to xmobar.org config file. It works.
    4 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 9 Aug 2021
  • xmobar.hs
    2 projects | reddit.com/r/xmonad | 21 Jun 2021
    There is an example on how to do this in the xmobar git repository

pfetch

Posts with mentions or reviews of pfetch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing xmobar and pfetch you can also consider the following projects:

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

taffybar - A gtk based status bar for tiling window managers such as XMonad

xmonad-dbus - XMonad DBus monitor application and library to easily connect XMonad with Polybar

cfetch - A simple system information tool for Linux. [Moved to: https://github.com/kluntze/cfetch]

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

xmonad - The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager

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

daydream-arch-rice

onedark.vim - A dark Vim/Neovim color scheme inspired by Atom's One Dark syntax theme.

xmonad-contrib - Contributed modules for xmonad

rxfetch - A custom system info fetching tool

clock - High-resolution clock functions: monotonic, realtime, cputime.