polybardocker

A docker container for building polybar with i3wm support

Instructions

NOTE: This has not been tested yet, only that it can build polybar! Build the docker container as normal

docker build -t polybar-build-env .

The docker container has a source directory and a build directory Run by mounting the cloned polybar repository and a build directory(any build directory will do) but for completness:

mkdir ~/build

i.e. if docker image is as above (polybar-build-env) and the cloned polybar repo is in ~/gitrepos/polybar and you have a build dir also in home:

docker run -it --name polybar-build-env -v ~/gitrepos/polybar:/source -v ~/build:/build polybar-build-env
mkdir /build/polybar
cd /build/polybar
cmake /source
make

After it has built you can go to your ~/build/polybar and run make install and it should install polybar

Without docker (for the reddit thread)

i3 already installed (or without i3 support)

The following was required for docker:

sudo apt install -y software-properties-common

Main commands:

sudo add-apt-repository -y -u ppa:aguignard/ppa 
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y --no-install-recommends \
 cmake cmake-data libcairo2-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-ewmh-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev \
 libxcb-image0-dev libxcb-randr0-dev libxcb-util0-dev libxcb-xkb-dev \
 pkg-config python-xcbgen xcb-proto libxcb-xrm-dev libasound2-dev \
 libmpdclient-dev libiw-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev build-essential

Update to latest i3 (or if i3 not installed yet)

If you don't have i3 and would like it or want the latest with polybar support do: Note this was taken from https://i3wm.org/docs/repositories.html

/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper download-file http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/pool/main/s/sur5r-keyring/sur5r-keyring_2017.01.02_all.deb /tmp/keyring.deb SHA256:4c3c6685b1181d83efe3a479c5ae38a2a44e23add55e16a328b8c8560bf05e5f
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/keyring.deb
sudo echo "deb http://debian.sur5r.net/i3/ $(grep '^DISTRIB_CODENAME=' /etc/lsb-release | cut -f2 -d=) universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sur5r-i3.list \
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y i3

make polybar

first get the repo and place it in a suitable place: i.e. ~/gitrepos/ modified from readme at https://github.com/jaagr/polybar

mkdir -p ~/gitrepos
cd ~/gitrepos
git clone --branch 3.0.5 --recursive https://github.com/jaagr/polybar

create a build dir and make poly bar

mkdir -p ~/build/polybar
cd ~/build/polybar
cmake ~/gitrepos/polybar/
make
sudo make install