My polybar themes

This is a repo where i store my polybar themes.

You can just link each files of the theme to the ~/.config/polybar directory.

I have the folder in my config directory (this way: ~/config/polybar/themes/<theme-name>), and use this bash script to switch between them:

#!/bin/bash
ln -f -t ~/.config/polybar ~/.config/polybar/themes/$1/*
~/.config/polybar/launch.sh

You can check my dotfiles and scripts for further reference. (disclaimer: it's messy)

Important to get the themes working

All my themes fetches their colors from xrdb, so in order to get the themes working, you should set them in the ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults file and then run xrdb ~/.Xresources (or ~/.Xdefaults). You can find about the syntax here

Some of them have both i3 and bspwm modules, some don't, depends on when I wrote them. If you absolutely need a bar working on i3, feel free to issue or pull-request.

tiny

screenshot

another screenshot

A minimal, tiny and discreet bar.

Fonts used:

• CozetteVector

Modules:

• bspwm: shows the current workspace name
• pulseaudio: shows the volume and a little icon
• date: shows date and time

san

screenshot

another screenshot

Fonts used:

• SF Compact Text
• Font Awesome 5 Brands
• Material Icons
• font-logo
• IPAGothic (for japanese glyphs)

Modules:

• launcher : launches a rofi instance, it is a script you can find in my repo.
• i3 : i3 workspaces, basically.
• mpd : mpd controller
• spotify : shows current playing song on spotify (uses playerctl)
• cpu, memory, date : pretty self-explanatory.
• pulseaudio : controls volume, requires pulseaudio (obviously)
• power : polybar-ish menu

transparent

screenshot

the san theme as above, but with a transparent background, and slightly thicker.

cherryblocks

screenshot, the thick borders version

another screenshot, the reasonable borders version

a renewed version of the theme below blocks. Made for tiny bitmap fonts but thicc bars and borders.

Fonts used:

• cherry
• Font Awesome 5
• IPAGothic (for japanese glyphs)

modules are the same as below.

blocks

screenshot

another one

This one is composed of three bars. For that manner, override-redirect was set to false. So, in order to have your windows not overlapping on the bars, set your wm's top gaps to some value (I use 85)

This theme works very well with rounded borders. To enable them, uncomment the radius=20 lines in each bar. To have the shadows follow the shape of the bars, set clear-shadow to false in your compton.conf.

screenshot, with rounded borders

Fonts used:

• SF Mono
• Font Awesome 5
• IPAGothic (for japanese glyphs)

Modules:

• wsnumber : displays the workspace number. It uses a script included in the repo, uses jq as a dependency (credits to Airblader, on some random forum). Works only on i3. For other wms, you might want to use wmctrl or something else.
• xwindow : displays window name
• mpd : mpd controller.
• previous, playpause, next and spotify : spotify controller using playerctl
• pulseaudio : controls volume w/ pulseaudio
• date : displays date and time (24h format)
• power : launches a rofi instance, script to be found on my scripts repo (might not really look well with this theme...)
• (optional) i3 : manages i3 workspaces with some cool round icons, just place it on the i3 bar instead of wsnumber. You can see it in the second screenshot

miniblocks

screenshot

Same, this bar is composed of three bars, they will be launched using the script provided.

Fonts used:

• CozetteVector
• IPAGothic

Modules:

• bspwm
• mpd/spotify: the spotify modules requires playerctl.
• pulseaudio
• time

classic

screenshot

another screenshot

A simple bar that I wanted to not be too fancy and straight forward.

Fonts used:

• Iosevka Nerd Font
• Material Icons

Modules:

• bspwm: workspaces, basically
• time: displays the time and date
• mpd/spotify: simple mpd controller, or spotify using playerctl
• pulseaudio: control the volume

classic2

screenshot

A bitmap, more colorful version of the classic theme. A rounded variant is available, pretty similar to san.

rounded screenshot

Fonts used:

• CozetteVector
• Siji

Modules:

• bspwm: workspaces, basically
• time: displays the time and date
• mpd: simple mpd controller
• cpu and memory
• wlan: shows current wifi network used
• pulseaudio: control the volume

float

screenshot

A little floating bar.

Fonts used:

• cherry
• FontAwesome5
• font-logos
• IPAGothic

Modules:

• launcher : launches a rofi instance, it is a script you can find in my repo.
• bspwm : bspwm workspaces, basically.
• mpd : mpd controller
• spotify : shows current playing song on spotify (uses playerctl)
• cpu, memory, date : pretty self-explanatory.
• pulseaudio : controls volume, requires pulseaudio (obviously)
• power : polybar-ish menu

arch-blur

I don't use this one anymore, but it's still there if you want to use it

bar screenshot

full screenshot

To get that blur, you need compton-tryone, include dock in the blur section of the config and set polybar's opacity to around 85% in the compton.conf (see dotfiles).

Fonts used:

• Iosevka
• Font Awesome 5
• font-logo
• IPAGothic (for japanese glyphs)

Modules:

• launcher : launches a rofi instance, it is a script you can find in my repo.
• i3 : i3 workspaces, basically.
• mpd : mpd controller
• previous, playpause, next and spotify : spotify controller, uses this. I changed the path provided on the original thing, feel free to adapt.
• cpu, memory, date : pretty self-explanatory.
• pulseaudio : controls volume, requires pulseaudio (obviously)
• power : launches a rofi instance that has basic power controls (script to be found in my repo)