Re: [Packages request] xmobar - polybar - i3blocks (bars for windows managers)

On Mon, Feb 09, 2026 at 03:07:37PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> There are two very popular bars for windows managers that I would like to have on NetBSD :
> 
> xmobar : the standard bar for xmonad (it can be used also with leftwm and maybe other windows managers)
> https://codeberg.org/xmobar/xmobar
> https://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmobar

I'll leave that up to someone else.

> polybar : a very popular bar that works with everything I've tried
> https://github.com/polybar/polybar
> https://polybar.github.io/

I tried packaging this, my progress is in wip/polybar, but it uses
Linux's inotify interface, which is not available on NetBSD.

> i3blocks : a powerful bar for i3wm
> https://github.com/vivien/i3blocks

I packaged that as wip/i3blocks. I uses the Linux-specific F_SETSIG
fcntl(2). I patched that out, and it builds now, but I haven't tried
if it works. (The package needs config file handling fixes, but is
ready otherwise.)

Give it a try!
 Thomas