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Advanced Polybar Modules Configuration
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# Advanced Polybar Module Configuration (MX-Linux/Debian and Arch Distros)



Polybar configuration with patched and improved modules for Awesome, i3 and XFCE4. Base design fits to **MX-Linux (Debian Stable) and Arch Distros**.



## Inherited and extended sources



This project configures and extend github polybar sources from



* **polybar-themes (adi1090x)** - forest theme - https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes

* **polywins (alnj)** - https://github.com/alnj/polywins

* **polybar-mpris (0jdxt)** - https://github.com/0jdxt/polybar-mpris

* **polybar-scripts** - https://github.com/polybar/polybar-scripts

* **dotfiles by Derek Taylor (DT)** - https://gitlab.com/dwt1/dotfiles

* **My personal scripts** and modifications for several modules



*NOTE:* If you love this polybar - please add **git stars to listed projects!**



## Screenshots



##### Polybar Forest/Default in AwesomeWM

![Polybar Forest/Gruvbox FXCE4 with MPRIS (Spotify) Example](images/polybar-example-3-awesomewm.jpg)



##### Polybar Forest/Gruvbox FXCE4 with MPRIS - Spotify, Netflix, Youtube, text cycling and improved controls Example

![Polybar Forest/Gruvbox FXCE4 with MPRIS (Spotify) Example](images/polybar-example-2.jpg)



##### Polybar Forest/Default i3 Configured Modules Example

![Polybar Forest/Default i3 Configured Modules Example](images/polybar-example-1.jpg)



## MAIN GOALs



The main goal of this project is complete and enhanced configuration of polybar modules for MX-Linux and Arch systems.



Inherited actual theme is **Forest** with few styles colormaps from:



https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes/tree/master/simple/forest



Supported all modules already included in the polybar-themes project.



### Added Enhanced Modules



* **Weather Module** for Open Weather site with Nerd Fonts.

* **MPRIS Module** - with scrolling and activity icon - support all players Spotify, MPD, Youtube, Netflix,...

* **Polywins Module** - Opened application administration support

* **Network Improved Modules**

* **AMD Ryzen and new AMD GPUs Temperatures Modules**

* **Workspaces Enhanced Module**

* **Update Module** - for MX-Linux and Arch Distros

* **System Module** - for MX-Linux and Arch Distros changed



## Dependencies



Install following programs on your system before you use these themes.



* **Polybar** : Ofcourse, the bar itself

* **Rofi** : App launcher, network, power and style menus

* **networkmanager_dmenu** : network modules (debian only)

* **mpris** and **playerctl** : Spotify and other music services

* **zscroll** : Text cycling library for music player (zscroll-git from AUR or compile it directly from git for Debian)

* **wmctrl** : polywins service library



### Fonts



Here's a list of all fonts used by these themes.



**`Text Fonts`**



- Iosevka Nerd Font

- Noto Sans

- Droid Sans

- Terminus



**`Icon Fonts`**



- Iosevka Nerd Font

- Icomoon Feather



I strictly recommend to call `setup.sh` script from `polybar-themes` git repo, because it is installed all necessary fonts from here:

https://github.com/adi1090x/polybar-themes/tree/master/fonts



### Installation



Follow the steps below to install polybar on your system.



- First, Clone this repository -

```

$ git clone https://github.com/raven2cz/polybar-config

```



- Change to cloned directory and make setup.sh executable -

```

$ cd polybar-config

$ chmod +x scripts/*

```



- Backup your polybar settings (if you already have).

- Copy dir polybar dir `.` to your `~/.config/polybar` user directory.

- **That's it, This polybar is now installed on your system.**



### Polybar Configuration



- Set correct network interfaces



```

In user_modules.ini:

module/networkspeedup

module/networkspeeddown

module/wired-network



# set correct interface parameter

interface = enp38s0

```



- Set correct sensors for your CPU and GPUs



```

In modules.ini:

temp-gpu and temp-cpu modules

call:

for i in /sys/class/hwmon/hwmon*/temp*_input; do echo "$(<$(dirname $i)/name): $(cat ${i%_*}_label 2>/dev/null || echo $(basename ${i%_*})) $(readlink -f $i)"; done

and copy required sensors values to the fields.

```



- Set your free/paid OpenWeather API ID and City in script `weather.py`.



**NOTE:** For **AwesomeWM** only, set `modules.ini` module workspaces: `pin-workspaces = false` and `config.ini`: `override-redirect = true`

In addition, there is necessary to make trick - create empty wibar with same length and insert it to same position with polybar.



- **That's it, the polybar is fully configured now.**



### Launch the bar



To launch the bar with the selected theme, Just...



- Open the terminal and enter the following command -

```

$ bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

```



- You can add the same command to your WM *autostart file* to launch the bar on login. For example, to launch the bar at startup on openbox, add following lines in **`$HOME/.config/openbox/autostart`** This polybar is optimized for fce4, i3 and partially for awesomewm. But it can be used for many others VMs with little modifications.



```

## Launch Polybar

bash ~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

```



### Change Colormap of Themes



`Right-Click` to launcher button (left side first button with rofi) starts the **selector of color maps**. Select Look and Feel.