Polybar Alternatives

Polybar is described as 'Status bar for Unix-like systems' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are nine alternatives to Polybar for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Wayland, BSD, openSUSE and Sway apps. The best Polybar alternative is Eww, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Polybar are slstatus, Waybar, xfce-panel and sfwbar.

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Status bar for Unix-like systems.

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Polybar alternatives page was last updated Nov 26, 2024
  1. Eww icon
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    Elkowars Wacky Widgets is a standalone widget system made in Rust that allows you to implement your own, custom widgets in any window manager.

    45 Eww alternatives
    Eww screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    Eww Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  Widgets
    3.  Custom widgets
    4.  Gtk
    5.  Rust
    Eww iconPolybar Icon

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    • Eww is the most popular Linux alternative to Polybar.

    • Eww is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Polybar.

    • Eww is Free and Open SourcePolybar is also Free and Open Source
  2. slstatus icon
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    slstatus is a status monitor for window managers that use WM_NAME or stdin to fill the status bar.

    7 slstatus alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    slstatus iconPolybar Icon

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  3.  1 like

    Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.

    9 Waybar alternatives
    Waybar screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Sway
    • Wayland

    Waybar Features

    1.  Support for Multiple Monitors
    2.  Modular System
    3.  Temperature Monitoring
    4.  Network speed monitor
    5.  Wayland Support
    6.  Desktop Widget
    7.  Multi panel
    8.  Support for MPD
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  4. xfce-panel icon
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    Xfce componet to switch between opened windows, launch applications, switch workspaces and menu plugins to browse applications or directories.

    9 xfce-panel alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    xfce-panel iconPolybar Icon

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    SFWBar (S* Floating Window Bar) is a flexible taskbar application for wayland compositors, designed with a stacking layout in mind. Originally developed for Sway, SFWBar will work with any wayland compositor supporting layer shell protocol, the taskbar and window switcher...

    9 sfwbar alternatives
    sfwbar screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland
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  6. wf-shell icon
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    wf-shell is a repository which contains the various components needed to built a fully functional DE based around wayfire. Currently it has only a GTK-based panel and background client.

    9 wf-shell alternatives
    wf-shell screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Wayland
    • Linux

    wf-shell Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    wf-shell iconPolybar Icon

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    The motivation for creation of oatbar was to extend on the idea of Unix-way for toolbars. Inspired by i3bar which consumes a JSON stream that controls it's appearance, we take this idea much further without becoming a DIY widget toolkit.

    8 Oatbar alternatives
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    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD

    Oatbar Features

    1.  Support for scripting
    2.  X server
    3.  Rust
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    lemonbar (formerly known as bar) is a lightweight statusbar based on XCB. Provides full UTF-8 support, basic formatting, RandR and Xinerama support and EWMH compliance without wasting your precious memory.

    9 lemonbar alternatives

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • openSUSE

    lemonbar Features

    1.  Tiling Window Manager
    2.  Geeky
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  9. nwg-panel icon
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    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.

    9 nwg-panel alternatives
    nwg-panel screenshot 1

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Wayland

    nwg-panel Features

    1.  Wayland Support
    2.  Geeky
    nwg-panel iconPolybar Icon

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