xmobar(1)
NAME
xmobar - A configurable and extensible status bar for X11 desktops
SYNOPSIS
xmobar [OPTIONS] [CONFIG_FILE]
DESCRIPTION
xmobar is a minimalistic, text based, status bar. It was originally designed and implemented by Andrea Rossato to work with xmonad, but it's actually usable with any window-manager. xmobar was inspired by the Ion3 (http://tuomov.iki.fi/software/) status bar, and supports similar features, like dynamic color management, output templates, and extensibility through plugins. This page documents xmobar 0.16.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
xmobar can be either configured with a configuration file or with
command line options. In the second case, the command line options will
overwrite the corresponding options set in the configuration file.
The configuration file is searched for in the following locations, in
order:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/xmobar/xmobarrc (default:
~/.config/xmobar/xmobarrc)
~/.xmobarrc
The first configuration file found will be used. See
/usr/share/doc/xmobar/examples for sample configuration files.
Usage:
xmobar -B white -a right -F blue -t '%LIPB%' -c '[Run Weather
"LIPB" [] 36000]'
This is the list of command line options (the output of xmobar ---help):
Usage: xmobar [OPTION...] [FILE]
Options:
-h, -? --help This help
-V --version Show version information
-f font name --font=font name The font name
-B bg color --bgcolor=bg color The background color.
Default black
-F fg color --fgcolor=fg color The foreground color.
Default grey
-o --top Place xmobar at the top
of the screen
-b --bottom Place xmobar at the
bottom of the screen
-a alignsep --alignsep=alignsep Separators for left,
center and right text
alignment. Default: '}{'
-s char --sepchar=char The character used to
separate commands in
the output template.
Default '%'
-t template --template=template The output template
-c commands --commands=commands The list of commands to
be executed
-C commands --add-commands=commands Add commands to be
executed after those
of the config file
-x screen --screen=screen On which X screen number
to start
Mail bug reports and suggestions to <[email protected]>
CONFIGURATION
For full details of the available configuration options, please refer to /usr/share/doc/xmobar/readme.md.gz.
AUTHOR
Andrea Rossato originally designed and implemented xmobar up to version 0.11.1. Since then, it is maintained by Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz (http://hacks-galore.org/jao/). This manual page was written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos <[email protected]> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
LICENSE
This software is released under a BSD-style license. See
/usr/share/doc/xmobar/copyright for more details.
Copyright 2007--2010 Andrea Rossato
Copyright 2010--2014 Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz
July 2, 2014 xmobar(1)
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