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cylgom

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Registered: 2017-05-23

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Excalibar - sharp and shiny taskbar

Excalibar is a lightweight taskbar written in C with xcb, cairo and pango. It is highly customizable and can be configured with a simple ini file (~/.config/excalibra/excalibar.cfg). You can install it from the aur (it's named excalibar-git) or tinker with the source by checking the github page of the project. It was built with tiling window managers in mind (I use i3) but it can run on any desktop environment that follows the standards (that is, ewmh-compliant). I started writing this because the taskbar I was using (polybar) used to crash constantly and didn't include a task list plugin.

Features
- Lightweight
- Fast (more than polybar :P)
- Customizable (like in polybar, you can change the color scheme independently for each module)
- Stable (a taskbar just can't crash...)
- Plugins based (easily write your own plugins in a few lines of C)
- Includes a task list plugin
- Has a cool name

Dependencies
- xcb
- cairo
- pango
- inih static routines
- ttf-material-design-icons

Configuration
Edit ~/.config/excalibar/excalibar.cfg. Each section is named after the plugin it will load. Place your sections in the order you want the plugins to appear. The "side" option defines the alignment (left=0, right=1) of each plugin.

Installation
Excalibar is available in the AUR. Just install it and run it with

$ excalibar

Enhancement
You can report issues on github.
Thank you for reading; Any comment or contribution is welcome!

Sirsurthur

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Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 124

Re: Excalibar - sharp and shiny taskbar

Very nice ; does it work with multiple monitors ?

zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

Posts: 296

Re: Excalibar - sharp and shiny taskbar

I just tried it and it doesn't work. 
Is displayed for a second and then crashes. I get error:

segmentation fault (core dumped)  excalibar

Last edited by zaxdan69 (2018-04-19 12:50:22)