POLYBAR(1)

NAME
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use tool status bar

SYNOPSIS

polybar [OPTIONS]... BAR

DESCRIPTION

Polybar aims to help users build beautiful and highly customizable status bars for their desktop environment, without the need of having a black belt in shell scripting.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
    Display help text and exit

-v, --version
    Display build details and exit

-l, --log=LEVEL
    Set the logging verbosity (default: notice)
    LEVEL is one of: error, warning, notice, info, trace

-q, --quiet
    Be quiet (will override -l)

-c, --config=FILE
    Specify the path to the configuration file. By default, the configuration file is loaded from:
    $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/polybar/config
    $HOME/.config/polybar/config

-r, --reload
    Reload the application when the config file has been modified

-d, --dump=PARAM
    Print the value of the specified parameter PARAM in bar section and exit

-m, --list-monitors
    Print list of available monitors and exit

    If some monitors are cloned, this will exclude all but one of them

-M, --list-all-monitors
    Print list of available monitors and exit

    This will also include all cloned monitors.

-w, --print-wmname
    Print the generated WM_NAME and exit

-s, --stdout
    Output the data to stdout instead of drawing it to the X window

-p, --png=FILE
    Save png snapshot to FILE after running for 3 seconds

AUTHOR
Michael Carlberg <c@rlberg.se>
Contributors can be listed on GitHub.

REPORTING BUGS

Report issues on GitHub <https://github.com/polybar/polybar>

SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <https://github.com/polybar/polybar>
Project wiki: <https://github.com/polybar/polybar/wiki>

polybar(5)

COPYRIGHT
2016-2021, Michael Carlberg & contributors