Yabar is a modern and lightweight status bar that is intended to be used along with minimal X window managers like `bspwm` and `i3`. Yabar has the following features:
**Warning**: Yabar is still in its infancy and far from being mature. Feel free to contribute or report bugs!
## Terminology
A Yabar session should contain one or more *bars* within the same session. Each bar should contain one or more *blocks*. Each block should display some useful info to the user (free memory, CPU temperature, etc...).
[yabar](http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=yabar&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all) in [Yakkety Yak](http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/yabar)
[yabar](https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html#yabar) is available in the official `nixpkgs` package set and can be installed easily:
```sh
nix-env -iA nixos.yabar
```
Since NixOS 18.03 (Impala) there's a [yabar-unstable](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/window-managers/yabar/unstable.nix) package which is built from the latest master.
Yabar initially requires a C compiler (e.g. gcc or clang), make as well as the libraries libconfig, cairo, pango and alsa. The feature `DYA_INTERNAL_EWMH` in `Makefile` additionaly xcb-ewmh (or xcb-util-wm in some distros) and the feature `-DYA_ICON` requires gdk-pixbuf2. These dependencies can be installed through your distribution's package manager:
If you use libconfig 1.4.x (still used in Ubuntu 14.04 and Debian Jessie), please type `export CPPFLAGS=-DOLD_LIBCONFIG` then build using `make` as usual.
Please see [our documentation](doc/yabar.1.asciidoc) for in-depth configuration details. Also check the provided [example configuration](examples/example.config).
