thank you for presenting this. im not done watching yet but im sure ill love it. im in limbo right now making what my polybar would look like for my bspwm.
I started with the default polybar config and then went through the wiki of their GitHub page to see more config options and their built-in modules. They also have a repo with user modules. But I always find new ideas when I see other people's configs (or this video 😁)
@@BrodieRobertson after all the testing, ive decided to start off with your polybar config. are you really using interval = 0 for some of the modules in your live/daily usage? coz this is taxing my poor dual core hehe.
If you were to start using firefox, get multi account containers. It's all you need for having easy multi sessions with different accounts. As for status bar modules I think less is more. I'd only add stuff when I feel like I actually need them and it would reduce the amount of time I need to do something else to a significant degree. When you just keep adding stuff that "seems neat" or "might be handy" then you'll just bloat your bar and it will become really cramped and cluttered
Thanks for the inspiration, I might add some of those to my config. Here is some of my polybar setup, maybe finds that useful as well: - icon for battery (charging, full, discharging, discharging+low), click: percentage notification - icon for ethernet connection (only visible if connected) - icon for wifi (disconnected: gray, connected: white, click: network manager GUI) - 2-character-code for keyboard layout (click switches german/us layout) - icon for bluetooth (disabled: gray, enabled: white, connected: blue), polling every 10s, udev/ipc is on my TODO - icon for volume (muted: gray, three speaker icons for low, normal, high, click: mute, scroll: +/- and percentage notification) - icon for package updates (only visible if there are updates) - and the obvious ones: workspaces, date and time Regarding location and style: I have it at the bottom, so I only really see it when actively looking at the bottom of my screen. Most of the time I look at the top or center of my screen, so a bar at the top would be more intrusive. Also I use less visual effects: dark background, two levels of gray (normal/inactive) for fonts and icons (fontawesome). Then a light red and light blue font color for active/alert. No underlines, no module background (just bar background everywhere). My background color is the color of my monitor bezels, which makes it even less intrusive.
Nice setup you got mate. Plan on upgrading my Linux laptop soon and will be keen to try a new DM (have used gnome and mate for 15 years, keem to try something more minimal). What desktop environment u running?
I'm not using a desktop environment, I'm just running a window manager but it's BSPWM. It requires a bit of work to get to a comfortable state like I'm in
The i3 module has that. It's actually the default awaik and I love it. So if there is a workspace listed in my bar, I know that there is at least one window on it.
In firefox you can use tridactyl ( github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl ), to set up vim like key bindings to open your videos in mpv or run other scripts/programs, and you can also use multi-account containers to have multiple accounts on the same browser. Much better solution that brave + other browser.
You might need to adjust vertical offset for that font in polybar to make it align properly with the text. At least I needed to do that for fontawesome. This can be done in the polybar config, I think it is explained in their wiki.
thank you for presenting this. im not done watching yet but im sure ill love it. im in limbo right now making what my polybar would look like for my bspwm.
If you have an existing bar, just covert that over and then do the rest incrementally, that's what I did.
I started with the default polybar config and then went through the wiki of their GitHub page to see more config options and their built-in modules. They also have a repo with user modules.
But I always find new ideas when I see other people's configs (or this video 😁)
@@BrodieRobertson after all the testing, ive decided to start off with your polybar config. are you really using interval = 0 for some of the modules in your live/daily usage? coz this is taxing my poor dual core hehe.
I had that japanese characters in polybar problem for soo long now and you just fixed it.
Give this man a medal
put: *; vim:ft=dosini* at the end of your config file to recover syntax highlight in vim based editors.
If you were to start using firefox, get multi account containers. It's all you need for having easy multi sessions with different accounts.
As for status bar modules I think less is more. I'd only add stuff when I feel like I actually need them and it would reduce the amount of time I need to do something else to a significant degree.
When you just keep adding stuff that "seems neat" or "might be handy" then you'll just bloat your bar and it will become really cramped and cluttered
Thanks for the inspiration, I might add some of those to my config. Here is some of my polybar setup, maybe finds that useful as well:
- icon for battery (charging, full, discharging, discharging+low), click: percentage notification
- icon for ethernet connection (only visible if connected)
- icon for wifi (disconnected: gray, connected: white, click: network manager GUI)
- 2-character-code for keyboard layout (click switches german/us layout)
- icon for bluetooth (disabled: gray, enabled: white, connected: blue), polling every 10s, udev/ipc is on my TODO
- icon for volume (muted: gray, three speaker icons for low, normal, high, click: mute, scroll: +/- and percentage notification)
- icon for package updates (only visible if there are updates)
- and the obvious ones: workspaces, date and time
Regarding location and style:
I have it at the bottom, so I only really see it when actively looking at the bottom of my screen. Most of the time I look at the top or center of my screen, so a bar at the top would be more intrusive. Also I use less visual effects: dark background, two levels of gray (normal/inactive) for fonts and icons (fontawesome). Then a light red and light blue font color for active/alert. No underlines, no module background (just bar background everywhere). My background color is the color of my monitor bezels, which makes it even less intrusive.
Sunny and 6 degrees Celsius, in june wow
That's what you get with Australia
Have you checked out bashtop for system monitor?
Not on a video but I have briefly used it
For your set-up, the bar on top.
You can have diferents accounts in diferent profiles in Brave try it, btw what plugings do you use?
I don't think I've ever touched profiles before, VidIQ is the main one I need but it seems like the Firefox version just came out.
Nice setup you got mate. Plan on upgrading my Linux laptop soon and will be keen to try a new DM (have used gnome and mate for 15 years, keem to try something more minimal). What desktop environment u running?
I'm not using a desktop environment, I'm just running a window manager but it's BSPWM. It requires a bit of work to get to a comfortable state like I'm in
Top bar here. Just seems better to me. You can always have both but seems like a waste of space.
I would personally only have 1 or the other.
@@BrodieRobertson Agreed
I personally used both because having everything on one bar looked cluttered to me - then again i am on a 10 year old netbook with it
One module that I absolutely have to have is network bandwidth indicator.
Never really used it, is it a lemonbar "wrapper" thing?
I don't think it's just a lemonbar wrapper but it does support lemonbar tags
@@BrodieRobertson oh nice
How to show only the occupied workspace on the polybar?
It's not built into module by default so you'd have to write it yourself and that depends on which window manager you're using.
@@BrodieRobertson I meant bspwm, because i think that i3WM has it out of the box.
@@007arek I didn't know the i3 module did it out the box
The i3 module has that. It's actually the default awaik and I love it. So if there is a workspace listed in my bar, I know that there is at least one window on it.
It works out of the box. Set unused tags to nothing in bspwm or i3 section of polybar confit.
I just have volume, date (Gregorian and then lunar for Islamic dates) and time in my bar in dwm
I really don't need anything more :p
Status bar on top or left side.
What bar are you using that let's you put it on the left.
@@BrodieRobertson I'm addicted to the Ubuntu Unity model. Be it with a windowm manager or a DE, I'll get a panel on top or top + left.
@@learningbird9940 I like that too. What panel do u use?
good info! I use i3 status bar, but I've been eyeballing polybar.
I don't recall using i3status for long, I switched pretty quickly to i3blocks. Has it been a good bar to use?
@@BrodieRobertson it's fine but a little limited functionality wise.
I like my bar on the side, because on widescreens height is scarcer than width. I do the same with browser tabs. What do you use for your tray?
I use the tray built into Polybar
@@BrodieRobertson Thank you!
Next step is to get rid of the bar completely and go barless lol.
Yeah I don't see that happening
vidIQ is available for firefox here - addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vidiq-vision-youtube/
??? How didn't I know about this, I was sure it was only available for Chromium
@@BrodieRobertson You must have missed it.
Looking at their website it's the most recent announcement so it must be new
@@BrodieRobertson the extension is at least 6 months old you can see that in reviews of the extension
The last time I looked in VidIQ would have been before that
What program do you use for your notifictions
Dunst at this stage
If you don't know what to put in Polybar do you really need it?
The point of the video was to talk about what I put in my Polybar, the title was to get people to click it
My internet is bad atm, so I'll leave a like and a comment to help with the algorithm. Will watch later...
This video needs more hand gestures 😂
In firefox you can use tridactyl ( github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl ), to set up vim like key bindings to open your videos in mpv or run other scripts/programs, and you can also use multi-account containers to have multiple accounts on the same browser. Much better solution that brave + other browser.
Emojis? .___. didn't know you could do that
You have to give the Polybar access to an emoji font first but once you've done that it works just fine
You might need to adjust vertical offset for that font in polybar to make it align properly with the text. At least I needed to do that for fontawesome. This can be done in the polybar config, I think it is explained in their wiki.
There is vidIQ for Firefox.
There wasn't when I made this video it came out fairly recently.
@@BrodieRobertson I remember using it before this video came out? 🤔
@@tux7k maybe it's older than I think but I know it's fairly new
Yeah