The main purpose of Polybar is to help users create awesome status bars. It has built-in functionality to display information about the most commonly used services. Some of the services included so far: Systray icons Window title Playback controls and status display for MPD using libmpdclient ALSA volume controls Workspace and desktop panel for bspwm and i3 Workspace module for EWMH compliant window managers Keyboard layout and indicator status CPU and memory load indicator Battery display Network connection details Backlight level Date and time label Time-based shell script execution Command output tailing User-defined menu tree Inter-process messaging And more... WWW: https://github.com/jaagr/polybar