polybar(1) — Polybar User Manual 3.7.2 documentation

# polybar(1)

## 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. If the BAR argument is not provided and the configuration file only contains one bar definition, polybar will display this bar.

## 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`

  - `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/polybar/config.ini`

  - `$HOME/.config/polybar/config`

  - `$HOME/.config/polybar/config.ini`

  - `$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/polybar/config.ini`

  - `/etc/xdg/polybar/config.ini` (only if `XDG_CONFIG_DIRS` is not set)

  - `/etc/polybar/config.ini`

-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.
  If polybar was compiled with RandR monitor support, only monitors are listed and not physical outputs.

-M, --list-all-monitors
  Print list of all available monitors and exit.
  This includes cloned monitors as well as both physical outputs and RandR monitors (if supported).
  Only the names listed here can be used as monitor names in polybar.

-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

## AUTHORS

Polybar was created by Michael Carlberg and is currently maintained by Patrick Ziegler.
Contributors can be listed on GitHub.

## REPORTING BUGS

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

## SEE ALSO

polybar-msg(1), polybar(5)

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