xmobar VS ranger

Compare xmobar vs ranger and see what are their differences.

xmobar

A minimalistic status bar (by jaor)

ranger

A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console (by ranger)
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xmobar ranger
33 154
781 13,082
- 2.2%
8.7 6.2
9 months ago 4 days ago
Haskell Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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

ranger

Posts with mentions or reviews of ranger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.

What are some alternatives?

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

lf - Terminal file manager

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

lf - Fully Decentralized Fully Replicated Key/Value Store

mc - Midnight Commander's repository

lf - A Language Features library for Emacs Lisp

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

nnn.vim - File manager for vim/neovim powered by n³

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

fzf.vim - fzf :heart: vim

joshuto - ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,100+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.