Software Alternatives & Startups

Polybar

Status bar for Unix-like systems.

Polybar

Polybar Alternatives & Competitors

  1. 16

    A Flexible toolkit for making desktop shells with QtQuick, targeting Wayland and X11.

    Key Quickshell features:

    Ease of Use Customization Integration Performance

    Open Source

    /quickshell-alternatives
  2. 7

    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

    /tint2-alternatives
  3. Private document search for Windows. Find files by what’s inside them — locally, without uploading your documents.

    Key JustDocz features:

    Search Inside Documents Search email archives OCR to Txt/Docx export Local Processing

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  4. 16

    Modular status panel for X11 and Wayland, inspired by polybar.

    Key Yambar features:

    Customizability Lightweight Extensibility Open Source

    /yambar-alternatives
  5. 15

    Customisable Wayland gtk bar written in Rust.

    Key ironbar features:

    Lightweight Customizable Rust-based Open Source

    /ironbar-alternatives
  6. 6

    DockbarX is a standalone dock that groups and launches applications.

    Key DockbarX features:

    Customizability Lightweight Plugin Support Linux Desktop Compatibility

    /dockbarx-alternatives
  7. 14

    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

    /nwg-panel-alternatives
  8. 15

    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

    /xfce-panel-alternatives
  9. 4

    A tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning.

    Key bspwm features:

    Highly Configurable Efficient Use of Screen Space Lightweight Scriptable with Unix Philosophy

    /bspwm-alternatives
  10. 4

    A lightweight compositor for X11 (previously a compton fork).

    Key picom features:

    Customizability Performance Modern Features Active Development

    /picom-alternatives
  11. 6

    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

    Open Source

    /cairo-dock-alternatives
  12. 13

    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

    /slstatus-alternatives
  13. 15

    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

    /waybar-alternatives
  14. 3

    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

    Open Source

    /i3-alternatives
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