wow i forgot that polybar is in aur… maybe one of the options could be building from source 
?
yabar? i must check it…
problem with yabar -is hat it hasn’t had any development in over a yer. I even opened an iissue and asked if the project is dead
hmm… not good, but that’s life.
tint2? dzen2?
dzen2 is not for beginners - I had hell with it it using it with herbstluftwm- for 14 months
Polybar on the other hand has modules - very like i3 blocks - so you can write your own modules without knowing any scritpting language. it’s human-readable. I wish we could look the other way on poylobar but if that’s not an option someone else has to write the bar. and it will be a genrifc bar. polybar can make ech module for each user. Tint 2 I think is great for stacking wm - not so much for tiling - that’s just my preference though
ok so we will build polybar from source maybe?
I always buils bspwm ans axhkd from source- I never used the aur pk’s
i that case there is one question… can we build from source in this flavor
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should work as this builds are not huge and time consuming.
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no building bspwm and sxhkd is faily quick on my i5 thinkpad
polybar isn’t huge package, on my test vm i took about 2/3 minutes
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but if you need like 3 packages we can add them to eos repository also, if there will be someone having a look into changes upstream and updating PKGBUILDS if needed.
well, at this moment we are talking about 3 packages how much of them will be more time will tell.
hmm… it’s good idea, but frankly i don’t have many experience with mantainig packages…
especially with arch, i’m refugee from opensuse… men i miss yast 
I’m willing to learn
but what are the 3 packages - I count only 2
polybar
I’ve been messing with polybar config stuff the last few nights here. I really like it. It seems easy enough to set a standard bar with a lot of info in it and let the user trim it down as needed/wanted. There are a lot of good examples out there, I’ve been messing mainly with the ones from here. They are well written (as far as I can tell) and work well, once you get all the fonts.
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yes polybar is very easy to use- you can add your own modules too lke I did for my sepearotors
polybar is great. you can do with it many things, and jest this repo i quite good.
this is mine
this si mine
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that is the place where they can sit