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• Why I traded my custom "Opinionated Linux" for Omarchy
  13 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2026

  I've been using Omarchy as my main setup since June 26, 2025, the day DHH released the first version. Before that I had my own custom Opinionated Linux, mclovin-ARCHived: an Arch + i3wm installer set up exactly the way I liked. It was total control over the OS: me deciding what goes in, keeping every piece (i3wm, polybar, picom, kitty, dotfiles) up to date and making sure they all talked to each other for the whole OS to keep working. It did the job, but it was costly to keep up to date: always digging into some new TUI to solve a small issue, and changing CPU or laptop meant checking compatibility for everything and tweaking for each machine.

• [PT-BR] Por que troquei meu "Opinionated Linux" autoral (DIY) pelo Omarchy
  13 projects | dev.to | 2 May 2026
• Polybar: A fast and easy-to-use status bar
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2026
• 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

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