Polybar
Status bar for Unix-like systems.
Polybar Alternatives & Competitors
The best Polybar alternatives based on verified products, community votes, reviews and other factors.
Some of the top features or benefits of Polybar are: Highly Customizable, Lightweight, Modular Design, Script Support, and Active Community. You can visit the info page to learn more.
We have listed more than 10 alternatives to Polybar. You can find them below. The top competitors are: Quickshell, tint2, and Yambar. Apart from the top ones, people also compare Polybar with nwg-panel, xfce-panel, and wf-shell.
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/quickshell-alternatives
A Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, targeting Wayland and X11.
Key Quickshell features:
Ease of Use Customization Integration Performance
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/tint2-alternatives
git clone https://gitlab. com/o9000/tint2. git cd tint2 git checkout 16. 1 mkdir build cd build cmake ..
Key tint2 features:
Lightweight Highly Customizable Minimalistic Design Multi-desktop Support
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Key Graded Prompts features:
Human prompt review Verified example outputs Free Prompts Guest checkout
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/yambar-alternatives
Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.
Key Yambar features:
Customizability Lightweight Extensibility Open Source
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/ironbar-alternatives
Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.
Key ironbar features:
Lightweight Customizable Rust-based Open Source
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/dockbarx-alternatives
DockbarX is a standalone dock that groups and launches applications.
Key DockbarX features:
Customizability Lightweight Plugin Support Linux Desktop Compatibility
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/nwg-panel-alternatives
Nwg-panel is a GTK3-based panel for sway and Hyprland Wayland compositors. The panel is equipped with a graphical configuration program that frees the user from the need to manually edit configuration files.
Key nwg-panel features:
Customizability Lightweight Wayland Support Active Development
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/xfce-panel-alternatives
Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.
Key xfce-panel features:
Lightweight Highly Configurable Plugin Support Stable and Reliable
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/bspwm-alternatives
A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.
Key bspwm features:
Highly Configurable Efficient Use of Screen Space Lightweight Scriptable with Unix Philosophy
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/picom-alternatives
A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).
Key picom features:
Customizability Performance Modern Features Active Development
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/cairo-dock-alternatives
Cairo-Dock / GLX-Dock 3. 4 is now available. Cairo-Dock 3. 4 is finally released! One year after the 3.
Key Cairo-Dock features:
Customization Plugins and Applets User-Friendly Interface Lightweight
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/slstatus-alternatives
slstatus is a status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME or stdin to fill the status bar.
Key slstatus features:
Lightweight Customizable Integration with dwm Open Source
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/waybar-alternatives
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada: - GitHub - Alexays/Waybar: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
Key Waybar features:
Highly Customizable Support for Multiple Modules Supports Wayland Compositors Active Development
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/i3-alternatives
A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
Key i3 features:
Efficient Window Management Lightweight Customizability Keyboard-Centric
