Polybar
Quickshell
tint2
Yambar
ironbar
DockbarX
nwg-panel
xfce-panel
Ly
CDM
GDM
SDDM
LightDM
Console TDM
Slim Framework
XDM
Based on our record, Polybar should be more popular than Ly. It has been mentiond 25 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I've been using Omarchy as my main setup since June 26, 2025, the day DHH released the first version. Before that I had my own custom Opinionated Linux, mclovin-ARCHived: an Arch + i3wm installer set up exactly the way I liked. It was total control over the OS: me deciding what goes in, keeping every piece (i3wm, polybar, picom, kitty, dotfiles) up to date and making sure they all talked to each other for the... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago
I'd like to just be able to write a short shell script to check if an exit node is in use, and then pipe that output into polybar which I use anyway. The problem is that I can't find an option in the tailscale Linux CLI client that will show me whether I'm using an exit node or not. Is there a way to do this? Source: almost 3 years ago
I am on Arch Linux and I am using pywal to generate a colour palette from my wallpaper, which I then use throughout my system. In particular, I have a bash script which grabs these colours and uses them for polybar. The problem is that sometimes these colours do not have enough contrast, and the bar is hard to read. Is there any tool that would allow me to check the readability of my colours, and modify them... Source: about 3 years ago
Maybe check out the canonical page instead: https://github.com/polybar/polybar. Source: over 3 years ago
A common one is polybar, but there are quite a few so they can't be hard to tell just from how it looks. Source: over 3 years ago
After building & installing ly demonstrate manager (https://github.com/nullgemm/ly) I can'tseem to start it as there is no entry in /etc/sv to start. I then came across this: https://github.com/drozdowsky/ly-void. A build of ly that supports runit & sure enough it has a service to start however when I restart my pc and ly display manager starts, even with the right credentials it does not log in, only... Source: over 4 years ago
I definitely know what you mean; I used to use ly (and haven't been able to figure out how to write a package/service for it, yet) and would love to use that, again. Source: over 4 years ago
Yes, actually! Ly is a console-based display manager that allows you to select your login target between any of the standard sessions (KDEs, GNOMEs, and what have you), explicit launching of .xinitrc, or just dropping straight into terminal. Source: almost 5 years ago
What DM are you using? I tried to compile both ly-void and normal ly according to this guide. Source: about 5 years ago
On the github page there is an instruction to build it manually, but idk whether that works on fedora :/. Source: over 5 years ago
Quickshell - A Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, targeting Wayland and X11.
CDM - Console Display Manager. Contribute to evertiro/cdm development by creating an account on GitHub.
tint2 - git clone https://gitlab. com/o9000/tint2. git cd tint2 git checkout 16. 1 mkdir build cd build cmake ..
GDM - Electronics
Yambar - Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.
SDDM - QML based X11 and Wayland display manager. Contribute to sddm/sddm development by creating an account on GitHub.
