Tag: polybar

My Linux setup (as of 10/2020)

Description of my daily Linux setup as of October 2019

8 minute read

Edit (2020-10-02): change termite to kitty due to font ligatures support. Edit (2020-06-01): change urxvt to termite, update info on qutebrowser with tor.* Overview In this post I’m documenting the current (March 2019) system setup I use in my development machines. This has been converging for a long time already, and It will surely evolve in the future. However, right now, it works well for me. I use the machines mostly for development work (Gaia Sky, Gaia First Look, Ph.

System monitoring polybar modules

Modified version of system monitor scripts

2 minute read

Polybar modules

Polybar modules

A couple of days ago I sumbled upon this video by Luke Smith where he presented a couple of scripts to display CPU, memory and temperature information in i3blocks. Since I use polybar due to it working much better in tandem with my dual-monitor setup with different DPIs, I decided I’d adapt and change the scripts to work in polybar. Polybar already comes with memory, CPU and temperature modules by default, but they don’t include a popup showing the top-consuming processes, which is a nice feature to have.

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