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tint2 VS Polybar

Compare tint2 VS Polybar and see what are their differences

tint2 logo tint2

git clone https://gitlab. com/o9000/tint2. git cd tint2 git checkout 16. 1 mkdir build cd build cmake ..

Polybar logo Polybar

Status bar for Unix-like systems.
  • tint2 Landing page
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    2023-09-27
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    2023-08-26

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to tint2 and Polybar)
Productivity
60 60%
40% 40
Note Taking
56 56%
44% 44
App Launcher
100 100%
0% 0
Monitoring Tools
0 0%
100% 100

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Polybar should be more popular than tint2. It has been mentiond 24 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.

tint2 mentions (6)

  • Im planning to switch to polybar and have some questions
    From what I understand u'r not rly looking for polybar , it just doesn't suit u (as a person who switched from KDE recently) , I think u'r looking for something like `tint2` , it looks horrible but u can customize it , check this and this. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Complete rewrite of the netwmicon-patch: Enables to set _NET_WM\_ICON with a png-image and display an icon for st
    Generally the icon of an application is defined by its desktop-entry. The patch Desktopentry serves this purpose. Unfortunately, some programs like tint2 or Alttab can't make use of the desktop-entry and Rely instead on a hardcoded icon which has to be defined by the application Itself with the window-propery _NET_WM_ICON. Since st doesn't define _NET_WM_ICON this programs can't display the correct icon for st... Source: almost 2 years ago
  • tint2 panel doesn't re-appear after reconfiguring+restarting or quitting+re-running
    The intersection of people using both StumpWM and the tint2 panel/taskbar is probably pretty small, so I've not a lot of hope, but here's the issue: for whatever reason tint2 will run fine the first time it's started on StumpWM, but restarting it or quitting and running it again doesn't work. If I run it from the commandline I can see that it seems to be starting normally, but it won't actually appear. Any ideas... Source: over 2 years ago
  • Alternatives to polybar
    I know about candybar, lemonbar and tint2, I don't know if they have features like this. But can't you just not launch it on the bspwmrc, and then launch it, and kill it when you want with a keybind? Source: almost 3 years ago
  • Problems getting my systray working!
    The easiest way to have a systray with Spectrwm that I've found is with tint2. Source: almost 3 years ago
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Polybar mentions (24)

  • Is there a way I can tell which exit node I am using from CLI in Linux?
    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: 5 months ago
  • Are there any tools to analyse/modify colours directly from a bash script?
    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: 10 months ago
  • How do you deal with volume >100% and ramp-weights?
    Maybe check out the canonical page instead: https://github.com/polybar/polybar. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Top Bar
    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: about 1 year ago
  • Top Bar
    That is a status bar, often used with tiling window managers. A popular one would be https://github.com/polybar/polybar. Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing tint2 and Polybar, you can also consider the following products

Cairo-Dock - Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock 3. 4 is now available. Cairo-Dock 3. 4 is finally released! One year after the 3.

Pywal - Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.

RocketDock - RocketDock is a Mac OS X dock clone.

DockbarX - DockbarX is a standalone dock that groups and launches applications.

Latte Dock - Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for...

ObjectDock - ObjectDock is the most popular animated dock for Windows.