[8e] | Polybar on i3

[@teryxeon6897]

These videos are amazingly informative as well as easy to understand, wish i'd seen these when i started linux 👍

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! Very nice of you! Glad you like the videos :)

[@socvirnylestela5878]

this video is 6 months old but still very useful. thanks so much for this video

[@rizkyaragost4202]

Best teacher for me now, i've many learn about wm from this chanel, Thanks you sir, keep going sir, btw, i dont skip the ads in this video :v

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! Very appreciated :))

[@DavidHaras]

Thanks for these videos, I have been using Linux for over a decade and have learnt a massive amount from your tutorials. It is really appreciated.

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! That means a lot to me!

[@DavidHaras]

@@eflinux You are welcome

[@eddas5175]

Best tutorials I've ever seen on KZbin, you do an amazing job! Thank you very much for all the effort you put into those videos.

[@eflinux]

Glad you like them!

[@oswaldorodriguez5728]

Would love some tutorials explaining how to use polybar, i3, Openbox, tint2. I'm a beginner in Linux world, and this kind of videos are highly informative, but most of the times just tells you how to do the things and people wants to learn. I know there's documentation everywhere, but newbies as me need some introduction to this topics before read all that technical info. Anyways, thanks so much for your videos, means a lot for us. Have a nice day. :D

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks for the feedback! I understand what you mean. On this channel mostly I focus on basics. I did this for i3, OpenBox and other WM's and DE's as well. And that's because my goal is to open the Linux world to more people, especially the ones who are new to the platform.

[@veasman2274]

I love your channel! Any time I think there is no way there is a tutorial for something specific I need/want to do something you have a video for it! Your videos are always very descriptive and helpful. Keep up the amazing work you do for this community!

[@eflinux]

Thank you!

[@tibish]

The wait was worth it. Awesome tutorial :D. Really love it. Keep up the good work.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the support :)

[@lorenzoluilli967]

Great video: simple, clear and very instructive! I wonder if you are, or have been, a teacher, because you have the ability to make everything so understandable that it's a real pleasure following you :-)

[@eflinux]

Thank you so much!

[@jameshall5556]

Thank you EF for this video! You provided a good base for any newbie to start from! Keep up the great work and don't listen to the negative.

[@eflinux]

Thanks James.

[@jishnubiswas9399]

This guy made such nice videos on i3 customization. I feel sad that he gets more than 10k views but less than 500likes. Dont be selfish this video genuenly helps. LIKE IT DAMN IT

[@eflinux]

Thanks man :)

[@jishnubiswas9399]

@@eflinux Nah man i am really in love with your work you deserve it. Even though i am new into the linux community and about to do my first rice i was able to understand all your videos. Really simple to the point practical explainations 😊.

[@eflinux]

Thanks, I really appreciate that :)

[@jishnubiswas9399]

@@eflinux I like u guess what imma sub 🙃

[@orkunozoglu1148]

I LOVE THIS GUY.

[@carlitosbll]

Appreciate your work EF. Thanks :)

[@eflinux]

Thanks Carlos, very kind of you :)

[@Tala2n]

Finally I'll stick to Tint2, thank you for showing us all the work Polybar needs.

[@mohammadrostami7377]

how to use transparent terminal like your terminal on i3wm

[@leon1985ist]

Love your videos hermano, one thing was driving me and still driving me crazy is the spinning circle

[@JohnMassaglia]

I wanted to try out Polybar and this video is a great starting point. Thank you. If you're looking for topics, I would love to see a video on customizing Urxvt.

[@eflinux]

Hey John! Thanks for your suggestion! I'll look into it :)

[@thenextpoetician6328]

Thanks. I've been going up and down Polybar since the first of the month, mostly in VB. Way too many hours ... :) Stumbled across border-left/right-size [some number] at full transparency centres the bar, whereas with Bspwm, for instance, x-offset will do - width 80% x-offset 10%, e.g. Also, when setting the radius to a ridiculously high value, interesting shapes are formed. Modules that display info that varies greatly in width pose a fun challenge. I found a module to add Rofi, and ArcoLinux (which I run) comes with Jgmenu in Erik's Polybar config. Just install the app and go from there.

[@eflinux]

I understand what you mean, one can literally spend hours on this :) There are endless possibilities when we're talking about customization, but we are going to have to start somewhere :)

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@@eflinux Indeed. Visual learners who like to figure stuff out sometimes just need the basics to get started. I held off on Polybar for several months till I decided to dig in a bit. Found a few good tutorials and the rest was research. :)

[@eflinux]

That's what develops your style and creativity once you know how the tools are working! Well done!

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@@eflinux Thanks. Cheers. :)

[@ketzerm8672]

Extremely useful! Really great job, it's exactly what I was looking for, Thanks!

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@mtahadev]

13:33 I recommend wpgtk/pywal to apply the wallpaper colors in i3 session. Very practical.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for sharing!

[@TT-nh3qt]

Now I understand how to configure polybar ;) The explanations are simple and informative!!! Thank you very much. You helped me a lot!

[@MX31337]

I rarely see this type of videos, they are quite unique. Keep it up.

[@MX31337]

Also, can you make a Urxvt terminal customization tutorial

[@eflinux]

Hey thanks! I'll add it to the list, thanks for the suggestion!

[@PavanKumar-jt5mq]

Amazing series finally i make my own customization. I have a topic suggestion. "How to customize your arch linux using conky."

[@eflinux]

Uuuh! Good one! Haven't used conky in a while. I'll add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@agh0x01]

Thanks for the tutorial - I've been keeping an eye on polybar but still using i3blocks for now. There should be no need to use sudo to chmod +x the launch.sh script at around 5:30, unless you are not the owner of the file or its directory. Also you could improve your vim productivity by using e.g. caw (change a word) instead of moving to the end of the word, opening insert mode, then backspacing to delete 'bar1' before replacing with 'example'.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@andrianharrykennethwong1115]

Damn, I just wasted hours before I found this video. This is a very great tutorial! You just earned a subscriber, man.

[@eflinux]

Thanks!

[@sakuragi_hanamichi3263]

You are doing a great job! I watched many of your videos. Just a little advice. It better to explain what the commands do or the structure and components of what you are configuring rather than showing how to do a certain task. I am not taking about this video specifically just generally. You actually explain some concepts during your videos but they usually aren't aimed towards that way. I will give an example to avoid misunderstanding. I think it would have been better if you made a shorter video explaining what in the polybar config file then made another one showing your customization options. Like some sort of explaining the documentation in an easy to digest video. Especially you have a descent flow and smooth transitioning in your videos. You and Joe Collins. You are doing great anyway and I am not trying to downvote your work and looking forward to see more videos. And please tell me Gentoo is in on the way >3

[@eflinux]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll think on it.

[@youssefbouzidi4672]

I extremely appreciate your time and effort 🙏

[@eflinux]

Thanks Youssef, and I really appreciate your support.

[@alikaram98]

This video was really great Please make more videos for polybar

[@rafi_45]

thank you so much sir. hope you always healthy.

[@teslastream]

Had to get to the 5th video before realising "Any tenture" means "and hit enter" :D

[@renerocksai]

you don't need sudo to copy from /usr/share - so you don't need to chown afterwards

[@renerocksai]

also, no sudo is required to make your own .py file executable

[@eflinux]

Thanks, I realized that later:)

[@EkmekArasiKofte242]

you are the best again! 👍👍

[@eflinux]

Thanks again!

[@viddyscene]

Amazing video and really good explanation. I wish I had seen this video when I was doing my polybar configurations.

[@eflinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@founderofisis6627]

Hey thanks for the walk through.

[@eflinux]

My pleasure!

[@rivciks5045]

When I try to set an icon, I always get an error message: “polybar|warn: Dropping unmatched character” Yes, and I did install all the necessary fonts.

[@cjgs1000]

Nice video. What terminal is this and how are you pasting the font awesome glyph into it? mine dont appear correctly

[@eflinux]

I think I used xfce4-terminal.

[@krisbrightspirals]

since this video was made, the config file to copy is now located at /etc/polybar/config.ini So run sudo cp /etc/polybar/config.ini ~/.config/polybar/config to copy it to your new directory and change its name before changing its ownership with chown

[@nosystemissaf3]

why there we have to put example i now the dir example where the config is present but we copied the config to .config/polybar/ so why we are specifying that dir

[@lucasbrasil6269]

Bro, YOU ARE THE GUY!!

[@eflinux]

Thanks :)

[@fernandovega793]

Hi, I am having a problem while trying to download polybar, the console can't retrieve a python file called: " python-setuptools-1:54.1.2-1 ", it tries different mirrors but every mirror gives 404 error :c can you or anyone help me?

[@eflinux]

Hi Fernando, I assume you are on Arch. Try refreshing manually the servers with pacman -Syy and try again.

[@fernandovega793]

@@eflinux Perfect! It worked! now it's building the files. Thank you for your reply :D

[@atpray]

Hi, you can copy config files from /etc without sudo. This way you won’t need to chown them

[@eflinux]

Yes, thanks, it's in the video description.

[@mhos32]

Genial!!! Era justo lo que andaba buscando... Muchas gracias. Saludos.-

[@eflinux]

Muchas gracias Oscar!

[@pantasio]

I can't Install polybar "ERROR: PKGBUILD contains CRLF characters and can't not source". even I try change "autocrlf = input" polybar version 3.5.7-1 How I fix this?

[@j.s9875]

Fantastic videos, thx soo much.

[@eflinux]

Thanks for watching!

[@kevyyar]

do you have a video of how to set up a multi-monitor with polybar on both screens? Laptop and external monitor.

[@eflinux]

Not yet :)

[@nielsroetert]

Great base for your viewers to start experimenting with Polybar. I've been looking at the dotfiles of people on Reddit /r/unixporn/ very skilled in 'ricing' their i3 setups and that's very informative too. Curious to see if there is gong to be another i3 video, and what the topic will be.

[@eflinux]

Hi Niels! Thanks for the feedback. You got the point about the video. It should serve as a base to get started with Polybar. About ricing, I've seen the reddit you're referring to and it's indeed amazing how people can make their desktops so gorgeous! Although, it's always a matter of personal preference. To be honest with you, I'm not sure about doing that here on the channel, as it feels a little like going down a rabbit hole. I'm curious to hear what you think about that. Cheers :)

[@Ryanmandruid122]

@@eflinux I would love to see a video like that! You're such an amazing teacher, and I'm curious how you would set it up!

[@eflinux]

Hey Ryan, thanks for the feedback! To me, the important thing is to give the tools necessary for people to build the things they want using their creativity. Customization is so personal and if you'd see my machine you'd be surprised to see how light and plain it is :)

[@Ryanmandruid122]

@@eflinux I understand and I agree! Do you have any more future videos with i3? I'm addicted to your channel, it's crazy informative and how such a great teacher you are!!

[@eflinux]

Thanks, Ryan! I'd like to make a video on i3 about how it feels in daily usage, especially for certain tasks like video editing and so on, as I feel a WM is great and many people want to try them out, but the real challenge begins when you start to work on it. There is really when you find out if a WM is good for your workflow, or your workflow can be modified enough to be working on a WM the way you want to. Not sure though when I'll be able to do it.

[@mikewajda9912]

These videos are amazing!

[@darrenrichard998]

Thanks Ermanno great video :)

[@eflinux]

Thanks Darren :)

[@nikolaikiselev253]

Very nice tutorial! Thanks a lot!

[@seankang8318]

Thank you so much for this! Good explanation and concise. Exactly what I needed.

[@eflinux]

Glad it was helpful!

[@shell11]

17:15 which key was you using to reload polybar on the fly?

[@eflinux]

$mod+shift+r :)

[@simpleman9889]

How to upload file like in website that asks you to submit file. When I click on it nothing happens big white screen appears Fixed it just edit xresources and lower your xft.dpi

[@eflinux]

hey simpleman! Are you using and HiDPi display?

[@simpleman9889]

@@eflinux yes At first I set it to 130 then problem arose then I set it to 120 then it became fine

[@eflinux]

I see. There is a website called dpi love which calculates exactly your dpi, if you need that.

[@walterproof8025]

As always, great and simple explanations / guide! Maybe I will try i3 or AwesomeWM someday. For now, I would like to try polybar in Fluxbox to replace my 'panel-like' conky, but I was wondering if the lines under the values (cpu, memory, etc..) could be dynamic as the cpubar, or memory bar, in Conky...

[@eflinux]

I will try that out. I am not sure about the lines being dynamic. I never tried it.

[@walterproof8025]

@@eflinux After looking around, I don't think that is possible, but who knows...

[@valentinaniere3775]

Awesome video, thanks!

[@tompelican]

Why do you use sudo to copy the config files to your home directory? I am able to copy config files without sudo and then I don't have to chown the file.

[@eflinux]

It’s not necessary of course. In those days I had a few things to tweak on my side.

[@tompelican]

@@eflinux Thanks for the reply. I really like your content and the way you present it.

[@eflinux]

Thank you!

[@Mr.M4urya]

I am not getting the configuration's/command of i3-gaps,.....btw your video is amazing coz it help me to customize my i3wm and thanks for that..😀

[@bldtears7373]

one newbie question. is it possible to change the position of the bar from top to bottom? thanks.

[@eflinux]

In the configuration file there should be a "bottom=false" option. Change it to "true"

[@bldtears7373]

@@eflinux wow Thanks for the fast reply!! :D

[@eflinux]

No worries:)

[@zedrobot5864]

Thank youuuuu so much very helpful video mate ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@eflinux]

You're welcome!

[@mohammadmohsinsiddiqui2056]

Great way of teaching EF. I was really scared of arch and terminal however with ur tutorials I have started understanding as well as loving it. I followed all ur tutorials on i3. And now I am stuck at installing ttf-unifont for polybar. It gets error while importing the pgp keys. Could u plz help me with that.

[@eflinux]

Yeah, I know that's a problem with the package on the AUR. Until it gets updated there's not really much we can do. Try to type this "gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 1A09227B1F435A33" and see if it goes.

[@mohammadmohsinsiddiqui2056]

@@eflinux Thanx for the reply. Howeveryit didn't worked either, throws "gpg: keyserver receive failed: No keyserver available"

[@eflinux]

At this point the only choices are to skip the package or install from here directly: unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html

[@mohammadmohsinsiddiqui2056]

@@eflinux finally I managed to get it done by installing a Lts kernel and respective headers.

[@eflinux]

Great!

[@SamSam-df4xp]

Excellent. Very very helpful. I always struggled with Polybar. Would it be possible for you push your config changes to GitHub or Gitlab?

[@eflinux]

Thanks! For now I have my config file on my website. As soon as I get the chance I will open a github account and push everything there.

[@freebeenergy]

Yep Thanks it works. But had some problems. When I restarted i3, the old polybar still there and under it was the new one. So I was searching for polybar void linux. It was because in void linux the launch.sh script is different to the script on github =)) Now it works fine)) Only the poweroff menu doesn't work. maybe because of the runit.

[@eflinux]

Oh thanks for the note, I didn't know that.

[@JazzMachine77]

Polybar is really nice however every icon on it shows really really tiny, and I have all the fonts installed. Tried different config, fonts nothing happened so I went back to i3bar

[@eflinux]

You can increase the size of the icons in the config file under the fonts section.

[@JazzMachine77]

@@eflinux yeah I did that but for some reason the size never changes and it doesn't seem to be a problem with font awesome, other fonts with icons have the same problem. I will give a shot again some time. By the way, like a lot your videos. :)

[@eflinux]

Thanks! And thanks for sharing!

[@anadolijamajh4181]

Thanx you. It helped me to configure polybar a lot. I'm on manjaro I tried to copy your module updates but it breaks polybar. A little help plz..

[@anadolijamajh4181]

It's ok now. Sorry for disturbing.

[@eflinux]

The video is a little dated, I'll have to look into it again.

[@eflinux]

You never disturb :)

[@JWCM2128]

Good video like all your videos, thank. I have a problem with module update, in my polybar show me (Updates: /bin/sh: line 1: checkupdates: command not found.) How can I resolve this problem?

[@eflinux]

Make sure you installed all the dependencies.

[@JWCM2128]

@@eflinux thank you very much, I install pacman-contrib and worked for me

[@prathameshmali3888]

Great tutorial just what I needed. Thanks you.

[@minhajsixbyte]

3:50 , if you didn't use `sudo` to copy the config file, you wouldn't have to change the ownership later.

[@eflinux]

Thanks, I updated that in newer videos.

[@AV_YOUTUBE_202X]

Polybar feels like it's way more complicated than I want it to be. I need to look for some other bar

[@aboodshazy4745]

great job man, would love if you can so the whole series on awesomeWM from the scratch to RICE😍

[@eflinux]

I will definitely do it:)

[@aboodshazy4745]

Appreciate your contrib to tech community, absolutely love your content and the way you walk us thru the process 👌🏽 Thanks bro keep it up 🙌🏽

[@eflinux]

Thank you! I really appreciate that :)

[@aboodshazy4745]

Hi bro hope you're fine would love to get some help if you can guide me, I'm currently running gnome over Arch and recently installed i3wm, but at the login screen when i select i3 as my login environment it wouldn't let me in? i hope my point was clear maybe😅

[@eflinux]

Hi there! Make sure your system is up to date and perform a reboot. Then try again.

[@aboodshazy4745]

@@eflinux Thanks for the quick response i did the reboot and system is up to date, But when ever i select i3 instead of gnome it just wouldn't let me login.

[@eflinux]

What’s the error? It just goes back to GDM?

[@aboodshazy4745]

EF - Tech Made Simple yes ask's for the pwd again and the only way it works is if i change to gnome else wouldn't work

[@eflinux]

From here is difficult to say, but I could be related to GDM. I’d try with lightdm and see if the problem persists.

[@HoangNguyen-yc3ov]

My font awesome 5 seems not working, how can i fix this :?

[@safalpiya3759]

I noticed that the compile process is using only one core making it really slow, can I somehow make it use all of my cores to speed up the process?

[@eflinux]

It takes time to compile, are you installing on a VM?

[@safalpiya3759]

Nope. It's on bare machine

[@safalpiya3759]

@@eflinux Is it normal for compile process to use only one core?

[@eflinux]

To be honest with you, I never looked at it.

[@kantraa]

P.S: colorzilla isn't needed anymore. firefox has it's own color picker.

[@jaoschmidt3786]

why did you use yay instead of the usual pacman you were using until now?

[@cojsolorzano]

is there a way or a feat to hide it and make it come out whenever we want??

[@leon1985ist]

Also hermano 3:31 didn't work for me keep telling me user not found or group I did me:me also try looking what group am I too I didn't see my user name how do I add my user to the home group

[@Zmunk19]

how do I make my terminal look like that?

[@eflinux]

Install terminator, remove borders and apply transparency :)

[@noyalmartin9729]

How to reload i3? So that polybar also reloads?

[@ismaeltakahashi6441]

Good morning Really nice video, may I ask if you have already used Swaywm and if so could you make an installation video and a customization one. Thanks .

[@eflinux]

I know the wm, but haven't used it that much. I'll add it to the list :)

[@ismaeltakahashi6441]

EF - Tech Made Simple thank you very much

[@eflinux]

No problem!

[@plasmalife5532]

Good stuff

[@eflinux]

Thanks :)

[@ramonoxis]

How can I have one polybar for my openbox session and a different one for my i3 session?

[@eflinux]

I’m not sure that’s going to work. It’s possible to have multiple polybars, but have a different one for each wm I’m not sure it’s possible.

[@juanmanuelborrero2250]

I have something like that setup for i3 and spectrwm. For instance for i3 you can add at the end of ~/.config/i3/config: "exec_always --no-startup-id ~/.config/polybar/launch_i3wm.sh" where launch_i3wm.sh is a script that launches "polybar i3wm" and where i3wm is defined inside the polybar config with the modules you choose (here Ernanno used "polybar example"). Then for spectrwm I have inside ~/.config/spectrwm/spectrwm.conf: "bar_action = ~/.config/polybar/launch_spectrwm.sh" where now launch_spectrwm.sh is a different script that launches polybar with a different set of modules)

[@noyalmartin9729]

Also make a video on how to install and setup Font Awesome? Please its not working.Anyone help me to install Awesome font on debian??

[@thatguynar]

Is it possible to use polybar on top of KDE?

[@user-gv7jq1lm4u]

i did all the same but there is no molbar

[@melanovapedia7924]

great, thanks

[@TheDooFxxx]

Nice!

[@eflinux]

Thanks :)

[@o7.]

Can you add timestamps in the description?

[@eflinux]

I eventually will for new videos.

[@xwinglover]

Earned a sub!

[@sc0or]

Wow!

[@hoangndst]

I took all noon to config i3blocks :)) and now...

[@TheOneAndOnly_LC]

I tried using the vim command but I get a can't open file for writing. I'm a total noob

[@eflinux]

Make sure vim is installed with sudo pacman -S vim.

[@TheOneAndOnly_LC]

@@eflinux thank you. Now I'm running into a new issue because I got frustrated before you replied and I reinstalled EndeavorOS, pretty close to Arch, and when I try to make a new directory it says that it cannot create directory

[@eflinux]

You're probably trying to make a directory where you require sudo privileges. Try using the sudo command.

[@TheOneAndOnly_LC]

@@eflinux I figured it out. It wanted more information so I had to put down $HOME/.config/polybar

[@TheOneAndOnly_LC]

After that it worked perfectly

[@juicy1nonly]

@6:50 how did you comment out multiple lines at once in vim?! that was amazing

[@eflinux]

I just sped up the video, but you do have to make it one by one :)

[@thefunnysmoke1526]

You can do it by control + v and choosing the lines then shift + i after typing # you press ESC twice.

[@uditkundu5883]

Sir pls make video on awesome

[@rivciks5045]

Don't copy a file with sudo, then you don't have to change the permissions later

[@electroprogramacion281]

This video is great, Man! you are the fucking master. But i have a problem with brand icons. firefox icon and spotify icon are not displayed. What the mater in my polybar config?

[@marol75-l2h]

Ciao Ermanno! :) Finally my dream came true and I've got dual boot Windows 10 and Arch Linux i3! Thanks to your tutorials and some good people too lol Of course there's some work to do, but not so much. Please, can you help me with one problem, which I have with polybar? After installation of i3, I used configs, which remained in my /home/config/ including /polybar. But when I enabled polybar, workspace was 2 times bigger than before. I looked through configs, but I can't find any command, a comment how to fix it. Also I looked in different blogs, forums, i3 documents, Archwiki - I found nothing about this particular problem. Thank you! :) My desktop - postimg.cc/Hc8DtwMX that problem with polybar workspace... - postimg.cc/XGmw2tcD

[@eflinux]

Hi! Nice desktop! The only thing I can think of are the fonts, you might want to play with those in polybar.

[@marol75-l2h]

@@eflinux it's not about fonts. I mean size of a workspace. It's too big to me.

[@eflinux]

I know, but some fonts will make the desktops bigger. There are also some options for the bar size if I remember correctly. I don't have them in front of me right now.

[@jasfradique]

#1b9gc6?!?!?!? what the fuck? color codes go from 0 to 9 and A to F!!! How come there's a g on this thing?!?!? And no one notice this? at 19:26, on line-color property :-D

[@eflinux]

That was a typo :) As it's written on the description, colors have been updated in the dotfiles on GL.

[@damonbeaver]

did this intro sound get tm'd or something

[@mynamejeff2880]

hey EF could you please share your dotfiles

[@eflinux]

gitlab.com/eflinux/

[@TheTanadu]

quick note - `yay` is not secure

[@difri84]

3:20 the file is owned by root because you copied using sudo, if you had copied using your own user the file wouldn't need to be chowned to you

[@eflinux]

Yes, it's in the description

[@difri84]

@@eflinux I'm confused.. Why sudo cp then?

[@eflinux]

It was still in my early days with Linux :)

[@difri84]

@@eflinux ohhhh i seee! Big support bro! I'm getting right now into tiling window managers. They are kinda hard to config. It seems i3 is the easiest. I'm considering xfce+i3 or i3+xfce panel or i3+plolybar or full i3. Any input? Even just point out some useful videos