Polybar-Arch-gnome

Polybar-Arch-gnome

Install polybar for gnome

1. First install Polybar from https://github.com/polybar/polybar , Copy the folder polybar in ~/.config

Fonts

2. Install Iosevka fonts necessary for icon https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Iosevka
3. install SF Pro Display for text.

• font-0 = "SF Pro Display:antialias=true:pixelsize=10;2"
• font-1 = "Iosevka Nerd Font:pixelsize=12;3" https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-fonts/Iosevka

polybar.desktop

4. For autostart, open the file with editor and set your username in the Exec=/home/[USER]/.config/polybar/launch.sh, put in /home/.config/autostart and /usr/share/applications

Modules

5. You can choose wich module to show on your polybar, depending if you have all package for example if you use nvidia gpu or not.

• Show user@hostname info / click-left open jgmenu (if you have)
• Packages count pacman
• Update status / click-left: install update (Prerequisites: sudo pacman -S pacman-contrib)
• Trash info EMPTY - FULL - (VERY FULL from 5GB) - Autocleaning > 8GB / click-left: open trash
• Cache home & pacman package [Size of total cache in ~/.cache and pacman package cache alert at 15gb]
• GPU nvidia-smi Usage% Temp°C (Prerequisistes: Sudo pacman -S nvidia)
• RAM + SWAP
• CPU used
• Temperature
• SSD usage
• Redshift on/off / Scroll change temperature (Prerequisistes: Sudo pacman -S redshift)
• Bluetooth info device / click-left: open blueman setting (Prerequisistes: Sudo pacman -S blueman)
• network setting base / Wifi SSID info status / click-left: open Gnome network setting
• Backlight scroll controll brightness (Prerequisistes for scroll see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backlight#ACPI)
• Volume Audio scroll controll / click-left: muted (Prerequisistes: pulse audio)
• Keyboard layout with Caps Lock info
• Search click-left: open Nautilus ~/
• DATE-Clock
• Powermenu click-left: poweroff click-right: Reboot
• Show Title window
• Workspace
• Battery
• Firewalld Staus / click-left: open Firewalld setting (Prerequisistes: Sudo pacman -S firewalld) ask password for controll activities evry 3h
• snappergui COUNTER FOLDER ./SNAPSHOTS / click-left: open snappergui (Prerequisistes: Sudo pacman -S snappergui / with snapshots active)

How deactivate Gnome top bar

Its necessary deactivate the top bar original in gnome, you can use any gnome extension meaning for example https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3843/just-perfection/ or https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/545/hide-top-bar/

Polybar

GitHub polybar for docs and download https://github.com/polybar/polybar