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polybar reviews and mentions

• Is there a way I can tell which exit node I am using from CLI in Linux?
  1 project | /r/Tailscale | 8 Dec 2023

  I'd like to just be able to write a short shell script to check if an exit node is in use, and then pipe that output into polybar which I use anyway. The problem is that I can't find an option in the tailscale Linux CLI client that will show me whether I'm using an exit node or not. Is there a way to do this?

• No monitor specified error
  1 project | /r/Polybar | 12 Nov 2023

  And I follow the step here. https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/763

• Are there any tools to analyse/modify colours directly from a bash script?
  2 projects | /r/bash | 3 Jul 2023

  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?

• 長年MacだったからWindows試しに買ってみたんだけど
  1 project | /r/lowlevelaware | 11 Jun 2023
• Polybar setup on XFCE
  1 project | /r/xfce | 29 May 2023

  Hello, currently I am trying to get polybar setup on XFCE. I was getting an error along the lines of "background_manager: Failed to copy slice of root pixmap" and according to this GitHub issue, the only solution is to try and set the background another way, like using feh. My only issue now is that it seems like feh isn't actually doing anything whenever I use it to set a wallpaper. I believe this could be because of a conflicting system in XFCE that sets the wallpaper, how can I disable XFCE wallpapers?

• how to make each polybar modules closer to each other
  1 project | /r/Polybar | 25 May 2023

  Refer to the "Formatting" section of the polybar wiki" (e.g. things like -padding, -margin, -spacing).

• Tray module color not working properly (?)
  1 project | /r/i3wm | 14 May 2023

  As per the docs https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki/Configuration it uses a ARGB convention

• How do I use polybar with Hyprland?
  2 projects | /r/hyprland | 13 Apr 2023

  The short answer is you can't.

• cant find polybar's config.ini
  1 project | /r/linuxmint | 31 Mar 2023
• [ noob ] Polybar is behind the another windows
  1 project | /r/i3wm | 14 Mar 2023

  There are a few different solutions here, try them out : https://github.com/polybar/polybar/issues/433

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