Yabar

A status bar for X window managers.

Screenshots

Description

Yabar is a status bar that is intended to be used along with minimal X window managers like bspwm and i3. Yabar has the following features:

• Extremely configurable with easy configuration system using a single config file.
• A growing set of ready-to-use internal blocks developed in plain c.
• Pango font rendering with support of Pango Markup Language.
• Support for icons and images.
• Support for transparency.
• Multi-monitor support using RandR.
• Entirely clickable.
• Support for several environment variables to help button commands.
• Multiple bars within the same session.

Installation

Packages

ArchLinux

AUR: yabar and yabar-git

Debian

Yabar is available in the official repositories since Debian Stretch (9.0):

# apt install yabar

Ubuntu

yabar in Yakkety Yak

NixOS / Nix

yabar is available in the official nixpkgs package set and can be installed easily:

nix-env -iA nixos.yabar

Since NixOS 18.03 (Impala) there's a yabar-unstable package which is built from the latest master.

From Source

Yabar initially requires a C compiler (e.g. gcc or clang), make as well as the libraries libconfig, cairo, pango and alsa. The feature DYA_INTERNAL_EWMH in Makefile additionaly xcb-ewmh (or xcb-util-wm in some distros) and the feature -DYA_ICON requires gdk-pixbuf2. These dependencies can be installed through your distribution's package manager:

• Fedora: dnf install libconfig-devel cairo-devel pango-devel gdk-pixbuf2-devel alsa-lib-devel xcb-util-wm-devel wireless-tools-devel libxkbcommon-devel libxkbcommon-x11-devel asciidoc
• Debian / Ubuntu: apt-get install libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libconfig-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libasound2-dev libiw-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev libxcb-xkb-dev

You can install yabar as follows:

	$ git clone https://github.com/geommer/yabar
	$ cd yabar
	$ make yabar
	$ sudo make install

If you use libconfig 1.4.x (still used in Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian Jessie), please type export CPPFLAGS=-DOLD_LIBCONFIG then build using make as usual.

Building the documentation (man page) requires AsciiDoc and a few other dependencies: asciidoc docbook-xml xsltproc

	$ make docs

This will generate the yabar man page inside doc/yabar.1.

Configuration

Please see our documentation for in-depth configuration details. Also check the provided example configuration.

License

Yabar is licensed under the MIT license.