Looking for ricing up your linux desktop? Polybar is the status bar that’ll start you off. I fell in love with polybar when I discovered how customisable it can really be with custom scripts. Naturally, this was the project that I chose to make my first open source contirbutions to.

Contributions

Option to turn off Struts

22nd October, 2022

#2844

Setting option enable-struts to false in bar settings turns off struts.

Negative minimum length adds right padding

24th August, 2022

#2801

Providing a minimum length to a token adds padding to the left if the token is not as big as the minimum length. This feature allows the user to enter a negative number for padding, which will add padding to the right instead of left.

xwindow module crash fix

5th October, 2022

#2833

Not providing a tag to xwindow used to crash the whole bar. This bug fix ensures that no tag needs to be passed.