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Polybar

Installing Polybar

If you're installing via git on Ubuntu make sure to get these dependencies:

sudo apt-get install \
  cmake cmake-data libcairo2-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev \
  libxcb-icccm4-dev libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev \
  libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev pkg-config \
  xcb-proto libxcb-xrm-dev i3-wm libasound2-dev libmpdclient-dev \
  libiw-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpulse-dev \
  libxcb-composite0-dev xcb libxcb-ewmh2 \
  python3-xcbgen libjsoncpp-dev

Clone github repo

git clone https://github.com/polybar/polybar.git

Build Polybar

cd polybar
./build.sh

Fonts

sudo apt install fonts-font-awesome